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Ronald Bishop; Talitha Best; Mike Horsley – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2024
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine prior research that compared the differences between the academic performance of students who undertook online homework as against those that undertook traditional pen and pencil homework. Eighteen experimental and quasi-experimental studies met inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. Eleven found…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Homework, Meta Analysis, Academic Achievement
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Pinquart, Martin; Ebeling, Markus – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
The present meta-analysis assessed concurrent and longitudinal associations between parental educational expectations and child achievement, and factors that mediate the effect of expectations on achievement. A systematic search in electronic databases identified 169 studies that were included in a random-effects meta-analysis. We found small to…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Parent Aspiration, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status
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Bas, Gökhan; Sentürk, Cihad; Cigerci, Fatih Mehmet – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
The main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of homework assignments on students' academic achievement. This meta-analysis sought an answer to the research question: "What kind of effect does homework assignment have on students' academic achievement levels?" In this research, meta-analysis was adopted to determine the…
Descriptors: Homework, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Correlation
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Ma, Wenting; Adesope, Olusola O.; Nesbit, John C.; Liu, Qing – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are computer programs that model learners' psychological states to provide individualized instruction. They have been developed for diverse subject areas (e.g., algebra, medicine, law, reading) to help learners acquire domain-specific, cognitive and metacognitive knowledge. A meta-analysis was conducted on…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Outcomes of Education, Meta Analysis, Individualized Instruction
Beesley, Andrea D., Ed.; Apthorp, Helen S., Ed. – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2010
Background: The current study updates and extends the original research synthesis of effective instructional strategies presented in "Classroom Instruction that Works" ("CITW"; Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001). That work identified nine instructional strategies for improving academic achievement and synthesized findings from previous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Homework, Educational Strategies, Recognition (Achievement)
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Hill, Nancy E.; Tyson, Diana F. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Early adolescence is often marked by changes in school context, family relationships, and developmental processes. In the context of these changes, academic performance often declines, while at the same time the long-term implications of academic performance increase. In promoting achievement across elementary and secondary school levels, the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Early Adolescents
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Patall, Erika A.; Cooper, Harris; Robinson, Jorgianne Civey – Review of Educational Research, 2008
New emphasis is being placed on the importance of parent involvement in children's education. In a synthesis of research on the effects of parent involvement in homework, a meta-analysis of 14 studies that manipulated parent training for homework involvement reveals that training parents to be involved in their child's homework results in (a)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Homework, Mathematics Achievement, Parent Participation
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Marzano, Robert J.; Pickering, Debra J. – Educational Leadership, 2007
We now stand at an interesting intersection in the perennial debate about the merits of homework, write Marzano and Pickering. Arguments against homework are becoming louder and more popular; at the same time, research is providing growing evidence that homework can be useful when employed effectively. After reviewing three recent books that have…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Homework, Indigenous Knowledge