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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They lowered the HW requirements because studies have shown that homework doesn’t significantly improve student performance.  
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So what I read was the APS goal was about 15/min per core course, so 45 min of homework?  Are DHMS students getting 45 min of homework plus 30 minutes of reading??

For middle school recommendations are about 1.5 hrs of homework, but they may be modeling for just more courses.

The issue with home work and performance came about when there was so much that kids lost sleep. Performance improves with enough homework that build their independent study skills, ability to focus, and repetition of skills such as math computation or grammar rules.

There is no world where college will not have significant homework, because the sheer quantity of skills and knowledge that must be conveyed in 4 years.  For non college bound students, homework may have little value in middle and high school, sure, hence why the importance of college and non college track courses even at that young age.

You can look at private schools, whose real measure of performance is not test scores but college acceptance; they assign significant homework still. Maybe parents demand it, but if it was a negative for student performance they would educate the parents.

https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/what-research-says-about-homework/

In fact, for elementary school-age children, there is no measureable academic advantage to homework. For middle-schoolers, there is a direct correlation between homework and achievement if assignments last between one to two hours per night. After two hours, however, achievement doesn’t improve. For high schoolers, two hours appears optimal. As with middle-schoolers, give teens more than two hours a night, and academic success flatlines.[/quote]

Homework's effect on performance is tough to measure because so many variables are in play. Research shows ambiguous effects in elementary but that may be influenced by the fact that struggling emerging readers take longer to do their homework. There is a positive linkage shown for middle and high school. Some argue the beneficial effects plateau after two hours but research study design can play a role in these findings. With grade inflation, perhaps additional study doesn't boost course grades beyond a certain point. But if you look at AP scores, the additional time could help. If studies measure performance only with school grades, they would miss the benefit of 2+ hours of homework on AP performance. The fact that AP, IB, and DE courses are exempt from the limit undercuts the idea that there is a threshold for homework's positive impact on performance. If effectiveness peaks at two hours, why exempt AP from any limits? It seems likely that more than two hours total may be needed to perform well for AP and IB. However, this is just looking at performance. A two hour limit could be optimal from a stress perspective but that's a separate question.[/quote]

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