Homework has been around since the dawn of human-kind; from the first scholar to today, homework has been continually influencing our learning, even Plato himself would have had work for his students to take home, but yet we ask ourselves everyday what is the point of homework? Surely there is more to homework than just doing it to avoid a bad report. Some would say that homework is just another practice to agitate us, but still we wonder why homework is the bane of our education, with the suffering we all have to go through just to complete those tedious work sheets every night.
It is often difficult to identify the difference between counterproductive homework and 'exam preparation' homework, however multiple researchers agree that there is a major difference between a teacher handing out homework because they're following 'regulations' and handing out homework so students can prepare for an exam, this difference is one of the reasons why teenagers and even university students dislike homework. Homework should be treated as a tool, a tool that allows students to extend their learning from the class, all the way to their homes; in an ideal world this sounds great, the teacher has more time to teach in the classroom and in result the students can continue what they learnt during the day while also getting ready for upcoming exams, but this is in an ideal world, in reality the original purpose of homework has been completely forgotten, this issue in my opinion is the main cause of homework being disliked among students and not only is it "Finish the work sheet by tomorrow," teachers have been also basically threatening students with detentions/having to remain behind in class for as little as leaving one question blank on a workshe...
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...f motivating people to want to do homework would create far more positive results in both study habits and academically.
Ultimately homework as it is, just needs a change, it is obvious that homework is doing more harm than good and the amount of homework we receive is just too much! Even Professor Harris Cooper of Duke University said that "too much homework may diminish its effectiveness or even become counterproductive" evidently the solution is obvious, if we are to stop the stress, the headaches and the vast annoyance of having homework then we need to start to understand that homework should start to be used more as a study resource that benefits the student but at the same time doesn't create negative impacts on the. Who knows? Maybe students will stop hating homework if teachers started to make homework more beneficial, productive and helpful to the students.
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