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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm a teacher, and these "homework studies" really don't make sense to me.

Plenty of studies, and certainly my own personal experience, have shown that "time on task" DOES improve student performance.

The more I have my students write, the better they get at writing.  They develop writing stamina.  Even if they just copy sentences, their handwriting becomes more fluent, and then they can write more fluidly when it is time to compose something original.

So I wonder just what these "studies" were actually measuring.   Did they compare kids who had been giving writing/composition homework (that was graded for accuracy and completion) frequently versus kids who received no homework, and then test them on a test measuring composition ability?   My sense is they probably didn't.   They probably didn't ask about the quality of homework at all.  Usually these studies measure time spent on homework, or math fact worksheets etc.  And then test kids on a standardized multiple choice test that doesn't measure writing.

I know from experience that my students make much better growth in a year's time, if I assign quality writing homework 3x each week.   There have been years I skipped that, because it's a pain to collect and correct.   But my students don't make as much progress then, because (I believe) they aren't getting enough writing time.[/quote]

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