Rather than seeing homework as a "solution," policymakers should question what facets of their educational system might impel students, teachers and parents to increase homework loads.
This was confirmed by a randomized study that showed that providing students with a choice of homework not only increased homework completion but also enhanced test performance [ 38].
Additionally, the strength of the relationship between the client and the therapist could contribute to homework compliance, with a stronger working relationship leading to increased homework compliance.
For low-SES families, family innovations that increase homework time also tend to increase test scores.
A study published in The American Journal of Family Therapy, found students in early elementary school are getting three times the suggested amount of homework and that family stress increased as homework load increased.
A University of Michigan study last year found homework increasing overall from 1981 to 1997, with the biggest increase falling on students ages 6 to 8, whose homework load tripled.
Like a growing number of students throughout the nation, Garrett, who is 12 and entering the seventh grade, has to worry not only about an increasing load of homework during the school year but about assignments that are due when he returns to school just after Labor Day.
And so we see story after story of schools (many in other countries, unfortunately) extending recess, reducing homework, and increasing free play.
The study explains that other research has found that increasing time spent on homework by just 30 minutes per night improves math grades, for example, by two full grade levels -- so it's clear that an after-school job can hurt academic performance.
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