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Book Synopsis Improving Homework Completion Rates in the Middle School Classroom by : Michael J. Grebb
Download or read book Improving Homework Completion Rates in the Middle School Classroom written by Michael J. Grebb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study examining strategies to improve homework completion rates for middle school students at a predominantly Hispanic middle school which was conducted in a small South Texas town over an eight week period with the participation of 94 seventh and eighth grade students.
Book Synopsis Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities by : Lucy C. Martin
Download or read book Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities written by Lucy C. Martin and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wish I had this book when I started teaching! Every teacher starts out with an empty bag of tricks; it is nice to peek into someone′s bag!" —Nicole Guyon, Special Education Teacher Westerly School Department, Cranston, RI Classroom-tested strategies that help students with learning disabilities succeed! Teachers are often challenged to help students with learning disabilities reach their full academic potential. Written with humor and empathy, this engaging book offers a straightforward approach to skillful teaching of students with learning disabilities. Developed for K–12 general and special education classrooms, this resource draws on the author′s 30 years of teaching experience to help teachers gain a greater understanding of students′ learning differences and meet individual needs. Strategies are organized by skills—including reading, writing, math, organization, attention, and test-taking—helping teachers quickly identify the best techniques for assisting each student and encouraging independent learning. Readers will find: More than 100 practical strategies, interventions, and activities that build students′ academic abilities Recommendations on appropriate accommodations, assessment techniques, and family communication Support for complying with recent federal mandates related to learning disabilities, including the ADA, Section 504, and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004 Helpful guidance and stories from the author′s own classroom experiences Ready-to-use tools, forms, and guides Discover innovative, easy-to-implement teaching methods that overcome barriers to learning and help students with special needs thrive in your classroom.
Book Synopsis Improving Homework Completion and Motivation of Middle School Students Through Behavior Modification, Graphing, and Parent Communication by : Dawn L. Hein
Download or read book Improving Homework Completion and Motivation of Middle School Students Through Behavior Modification, Graphing, and Parent Communication written by Dawn L. Hein and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action research project report was complete to discuss how homework completion and motivation is an ongoing issue and debate within the public schools. This is especially true in the middle school setting. The teacher researchers of this project chose to conduct a study in order to increase homework completion and motivation of middle school students using Teacher Researcher B's reading/language arts 6th grade classroom. The study consisted of 30 student participants and took place during the time period of January 29, 2007, until May 9, 2007. During the teacher researchers' review of the literature, numerous influences were revealed as to why homework completion and motivation is an area of frustration for teachers, parents, and students. These influences include poor student habits and study skills, lack of parental support and/or understanding, poor environment, parent complaints of schools and teachers, teacher concerns and lack of communication between home, school, and community, and finally the special education community of learners. Teacher researchers used parent and student surveys to document evidence of the problem. There were three interventions/strategies the teacher researchers used for this action research project. Homework charting/graphing was used for each class. The students graphed their homework completion with teacher supervision on a daily basis. A ticket/reward system was implemented in conjunction with the graphing/charting giving the students an opportunity to earn prizes/rewards for homework completion. The parents were apprised weekly of their child's progress by receiving a home note on a weekly basis, outlining their child's weekly progress, or lack thereof. The teacher researchers found the action research project to have both positive and negative results. Though student motivation increased at the beginning of the intervention, motivation seemed to decline by the end of the intervention. The teacher researchers believe this decline to be attributed to the intervention occurring toward the end of the school year. A lack of teacher consistency and enthusiasm toward the end of the intervention and a lack of parent consistency in responding to home notes were other factors believed to contribute to the lack of student motivation. The most positive feedback of the project came from parents. Parents responded positively to the consistent feedback concerning their child's progress. Though the teacher researchers would change several areas of the interventions, the weekly parent communication would be an intervention they would continue and recommend. Appended are: (1) Teacher Survey; (2) Consent to Participate; (3) Parent Survey; (4) Teacher Record Book; (5) Teacher Researcher's Weekly Log; (6) Student Survey; (7) Behavior Modification Chart; and (8) Weekly Home Note. (Contains 4 tables and 35 figures.) [Master of Arts Action Research Project, Saint Xavier University.].
Download or read book The Homework Myth written by Alfie Kohn and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and taxes come later; what seems inevitable for children is the idea that, after spending the day at school, they must then complete more academic assignments at home. The predictable results: stress and conflict, frustration and exhaustion. Parents respond by reassuring themselves that at least the benefits outweigh the costs. But what if they don't? In The Homework Myth, nationally known educator and parenting expert Alfie Kohn systematically examines the usual defenses of homework--that it promotes higher achievement, "reinforces" learning, and teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of research, logic, or experience. So why do we continue to administer this modern cod liver oil -- or even demand a larger dose? Kohn's incisive analysis reveals how a mistrust of children, a set of misconceptions about learning, and a misguided focus on competitiveness have all left our kids with less free time and our families with more conflict. Pointing to parents who have fought back -- and schools that have proved educational excellence is possible without homework -- Kohn shows how we can rethink what happens during and after school in order to rescue our families and our children's love of learning.
Book Synopsis Helping Your Students with Homework by : Nancy Paulu
Download or read book Helping Your Students with Homework written by Nancy Paulu and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Investigating Classroom Strategies that Affect Middle School Students' Homework Completion by : Christin Perillo
Download or read book Investigating Classroom Strategies that Affect Middle School Students' Homework Completion written by Christin Perillo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle Over Homework by : Harris M. Cooper
Download or read book The Battle Over Homework written by Harris M. Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homework is the cause of more friction between schools and home than any other aspect of education and becomes the prime battlefield when schools, families, and communities view one another as adversaries. This comprehensive fourth edition tackles all the tough questions: What’s the right amount of homework? What role should parents play in the homework process? What is the connection between homework and achievement? This essential reference offers all stakeholders—administrators, teachers, and parents—the opportunity to end the battle and turn homework into a cooperative endeavor to promote student learning.
Book Synopsis Increasing Homework Completion of Middle School Students by Using Parental Involvement Strategies and Establishing Routines by : Rebecca Haas
Download or read book Increasing Homework Completion of Middle School Students by Using Parental Involvement Strategies and Establishing Routines written by Rebecca Haas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this action research project report was to increase the homework completion rate of middle school students through the use of interventions. The participants in this study came from one public middle school. The participants were thirty-four 6th grade students in language arts, respectively. The intervention took place from September 10, 2007 through November 20, 2007. The targeted students at one public middle school in northwestern Illinois exhibited low levels of homework completion. The teacher researchers surveyed teachers, parents, and students, in addition to completing teacher observation checklists for each of the targeted students. The teacher survey asked questions pertaining to students turning in homework, and receiving consequences for not doing so. The parent survey revealed that students do not bring homework assignments home but do ask for assistance when needed. The student survey indicated that parents helped their child with their homework assignments less than half the time (zero to three days a week). Also, students indicated that they fill out their planners most of the time (four to five days a week). The teacher observation checklists showed that incomplete homework assignments were a significant problem for the targeted students. One of the interventions that was chosen to implement was positive reinforcement through the Gotcha system. This intervention has been referred to as a way for students to receive positive feedback, as well as a way to motivate students to increase their rate of homework completion. Another intervention chosen to use included increasing parental involvement in the completion of student homework through the use of daily homework planners. This intervention has been used as a strategy that has led to increased parental involvement, and an increase in the homework completion rate (Bryan & Burstein, 2004, Teacher). This intervention involved students writing assignments in their homework planners daily and taking the planners home to have them signed by their parents. By doing this students and parents were establishing a homework completion routine. The teacher researchers found that the use of Gotcha's and student planners seemed to positively effect the parent involvement rate. However, the percentage of incomplete assignments increased by seven percent. The teacher researchers also found that fewer students asked their parents for help with their homework. The teacher researchers believe that the use of planners helped students to organize their homework, and made parents more aware of homework assignments. Six appendixes are included: (1) Student Survey; (2) Parent Survey; (3) Teacher Survey; (4) Teacher observation Log; (5) Sample of Gotcha; and (6) Homework Planner. (Contains 2 tables and 22 graphs.) [Master of Arts Action Research Project, Field-Based Master's Program, Saint Xavier University & Pearson Achievement Solutions, Inc.].
Book Synopsis Improving Rates of Homework Completion in Middle and High School Sccience Students by : Sylvia Folson
Download or read book Improving Rates of Homework Completion in Middle and High School Sccience Students written by Sylvia Folson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Using Self-management to Improve Homework Completion and Grades of Students with Learning Disabilities by :
Download or read book Using Self-management to Improve Homework Completion and Grades of Students with Learning Disabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to improve homework completion rates and academic grades of high school students classified as learning disabled. Three simultaneous experiments using two-student multiple baseline designs were conducted. Students, referred by a special education teacher, were taught to set weekly homework goals, and to calculate, and graph the percentage of homework completed for one class in which the student was not completing homework. A second class was monitored by the investigator to determine generalization. Class grades are also reported as a social validity measure. The study's results are inconclusive as to the effectiveness of the intervention. Inappropriate referrals resulted in a ceiling effect for three students while the remaining students failed to show consistent improvement in rates of homework completion. Limitations of the study and implications for future research are discussed.
Book Synopsis Effective School Interventions, Second Edition by : Natalie Rathvon
Download or read book Effective School Interventions, Second Edition written by Natalie Rathvon and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly practical resource and text presents 70 interventions that have been demonstrated to improve the classroom learning environment, academic achievement, and student behavior and social competence. Each intervention is presented in a brief, standardized format with step-by-step procedures that can easily be implemented by Pre-K-12 teachers and other school-based professionals. The volume includes best-practice guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based school interventions, as well as strategies for combining multiple interventions to create a comprehensive program at the individual, class, or schoolwide level.
Book Synopsis Will Using Interaction in Small Groups about Homework Assignments Increase Students' Completion of Homework Assignments? by : Johannes Vees
Download or read book Will Using Interaction in Small Groups about Homework Assignments Increase Students' Completion of Homework Assignments? written by Johannes Vees and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Pedagogy - General, grade: 1,0, Samford University (Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education & Professional Studies), course: The professional secondary language Arts/English teacher, language: English, abstract: This paper is part of an observation as a clinical experience requirement of the course listed on the title page. It takes place at a High School in a 10th grade history class under Mr.E.'s leadership. The class, which I attend twice a week for one period, consists of 16 students (eight of them are male, eight female). As far as I'm concerned, I am a German exchange student spending one semester at Samford University with the main objective of improving my English since I'm going to be a secondary school teacher back in Germany. English is - alongside with German and Physical Education - one of the subjects that I'm going to teach. This semester is my fourth one, so I would be pretty much a sophomore in the American Educational System. However, the German Educational System works quite differently which is the reason for still having approximately four years of study to complete. Before being able to start an action research, the researcher has to identify a research question. It is raised the question which matters could be of interest. After having led a conversation with my mentor about an interesting field of investigation, we came to the conclusion that the completion of homework was an important concern. He told me about his difficulties in coping with this problem in 10th grade in history. He was willing to figure out a solution to the apparently big problem. Since some students don't do any homework at all regularly, it is definitely a problem worth taking into focus. There are multiple ways to deal with unsatisfactory homework behavior of students. Punishment in form of extra work is probably one of the most common means to encounter it. Yet, multiple generations of teachers have
Book Synopsis Improving Homework Completion Among Secondary Mathematics Students by : Lindsey Marie Clark
Download or read book Improving Homework Completion Among Secondary Mathematics Students written by Lindsey Marie Clark and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research question addressed in this project was, how do teachers successfully motivate students to complete homework? The motivation for this capstone was the continued struggle for students to learn mathematics content in one teacher's Algebra II classrooms, one cause believed to be the lack of homework completion. The author includes research related to increasing homework completion among secondary students and implements three of these strategies in her classrooms: increasing student feedback, restructuring homework and increasing teacher feedback, and pink slips. Her studies showed a significant increase in homework completion from the previous year's Algebra II class to most recent class.
Book Synopsis Improving Homework Completion of Students Through Tutored Study Hall by : Kori S. Dicken
Download or read book Improving Homework Completion of Students Through Tutored Study Hall written by Kori S. Dicken and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a guided study hall on homework completion. Two groups of students were analyzed in their homework completion rates. Homework completion rates of the students that participated in Site A were reviewed in their five core subjects, while the homework completion rates of the students at Site B were only reviewed in their math classes. Site A had 45 students participate in the study. Site B had two students in the study, both from the same math teacher. Results indicate, at both sites, that a guided study hall helped reduce the rate of homework completion. Overall, the rate before the study was 8% of homework was not being completed. By the completion of the study hall, 4% of homework was incomplete. Results show that with the guidance of a teacher and the presence of a study hall, students are more inclined to get their homework completed and may therefore increase the students' understanding. Educators should consider study halls to be a beneficial time for students who frequently do not complete their homework, and even more beneficial if the teacher assists the students with their homework. Twelve appendixes include: (1) Student Consent Form; (2) Teacher Consent Form; (3) Parent Consent Form; (4) Research Tracking Log; (5) Pre-Survey for Parents; (6) Pre-Survey for Students; (7) Homework Log; (8) Study Hall Sign-In Sheet; (9) Student Reflections Form; (10) Teacher Researcher Reflections Form; (11) Post-Survey for Students; and (12) Post-Survey for Parents. (Contains 7 figures and 7 tables.) [Master of Arts Action Research Project, Saint Xavier University.].
Book Synopsis The Case Against Homework by : Sara Bennett
Download or read book The Case Against Homework written by Sara Bennett and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas? The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents spend countless hours cajoling their kids to complete such assignments—often without considering whether or not they serve any worthwhile purpose. Even many teachers are in the dark: Only one of the hundreds the authors interviewed and surveyed had ever taken a course specifically on homework during training. The truth, according to Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, is that there is almost no evidence that homework helps elementary school students achieve academic success and little evidence that it helps older students. Yet the nightly burden is taking a serious toll on America’s families. It robs children of the sleep, play, and exercise time they need for proper physical, emotional, and neurological development. And it is a hidden cause of the childhood obesity epidemic, creating a nation of “homework potatoes.” In The Case Against Homework, Bennett and Kalish draw on academic research, interviews with educators, parents, and kids, and their own experience as parents and successful homework reformers to offer detailed advice to frustrated parents. You’ll find out which assignments advance learning and which are time-wasters, how to set priorities when your child comes home with an overstuffed backpack, how to talk and write to teachers and school administrators in persuasive, nonconfrontational ways, and how to rally other parents to help restore balance in your children’s lives. Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched, The Case Against Homework shows how too much work is having a negative effect on our children’s achievement and development and gives us the tools and tactics we need to advocate for change. Also available as an eBook
Book Synopsis Effect of Dependent Group Contingencies on Homework Completion and Accuracy by : Samuel B. Ralston
Download or read book Effect of Dependent Group Contingencies on Homework Completion and Accuracy written by Samuel B. Ralston and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Effective Homework Strategies for a Middle School English Classroom by : Erin C. Kratzer
Download or read book Effective Homework Strategies for a Middle School English Classroom written by Erin C. Kratzer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This qualitative research study documents the observed and reported experiences of eighth grade English students and their teacher when strategies to improve homework quality and increase homework completion are introduced and implemented. In this study, the teacher researcher explored the process of designing homework, established a classroom atmosphere where homework is understood and considered important, and motivated students to complete homework. With the design of the study, the author focused on having a clear purpose, writing clear directions, incorporating student interest, and providing choices. In order to maintain a classroom where students comprehended assignments, the teacher established a routine, assisted student in understanding the purpose of each assignment, and invited students to assist in the development of homework. Along with these strategies, the teacher provided immediate feedback, after school help, and incentives with the aim of motivating students to complete their work. The author found that many of these strategies worked for her students. However, being diverse in their learning abilities and motivators, each student worked better with different strategies and circumstances.
