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Xu, Jianzhong – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
The author examined purposes for doing homework as perceived by 969 eighth-grade students from 52 classes and 831 11th-grade students from 45 classes. Through an exploratory factor analysis, 15 homework purposes were reduced to a 3-factor structure: peer-oriented, adult-oriented, and learning-oriented reasons. A series of 3 multilevel models were…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Xu, Jianzhong – Educational Psychology, 2010
The present study linked gender and grade level to homework management strategies and homework completion behaviours. The participants were 685 African American students in the south-eastern USA, including 370 eighth graders and 315 eleventh graders. Gender appeared related to the majority of homework measures examined in the present study.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Homework, Gender Differences, Grade 8