Therefore, a successful homework completion demands self-regulation abilities, and some instruments that assess the self-regulatory components that are present during the execution of homework have been developed.
That is what childhood is supposed to be: not intense stressful homework and demanding academic tests (touché American public school system!).
Their study of dropouts in Maine found that many poor students simply could not keep up with homework and the demands of outside jobs and family responsibilities.
Of course, there's my busy schedule and then there are school demands, homework, projects, sports, music, birthday parties and.....oh yea, the science fair this month!
The school's director passionately lectured parents who demanded homework in the early grades.
They typically work a full-time job by day, attend classes at night — often past 10 p.m. — and devote weekends to the legendarily demanding homework of law school.
That might seem a fairly trivial thing to say about Shalhevet Schwartz, the 14-year-old girl from the Bronx who, in between softball games and the demanding homework at her Jewish high school, studied hard enough to win her division of the National Bible Contest, held last Sunday at Yeshiva University in New York.
After work and school take their share, homework and housework demand their fair share as well.
See, you don't have to get stuck in that problem -- that might take all of your time: Do a quick effort; make it a worthwhile try, then go onward to less demanding homework.
For tasks that require attention and cognitive demands (ie homework), researchers have found that the mere presence of a mobile phone may be sufficiently distracting to damage attention.
