Is the homework involvement different at different levels of academic achievement of students?

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Revista de Estudios e Investigación en Psicología y Educación, Volume 2, Number 2.
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Antonio Valle
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Bibiana Regueiro
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Susana Rodríguez
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Isabel Piñeiro
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Mar Ferradás
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Carlos Freire
Universidade da Coruña
Spain
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015), Articles, pages 80-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/reipe.2015.2.2.1344
Submitted: Nov 4, 2015 Accepted: Nov 26, 2015 Published: Nov 4, 2015
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The present study aims to find out whether there are differences in amount of homework completed, in the time spent on doing homework and in homework time management, among students with various levels of achievement. Findings suggest that students improve their level of involvement relating to the amount of homework completed and the quality of homework time management when the more students achieve higher. Although no statistic significant differences have been found concerning the relation between achievement and time spent on homework, students who achieve lower tend to spend more time completing homework compared to those achieving higher who prove to spend less time completing the assignments. Therefore, the results of this study show that more achievement more amount of homework and more time spent. However, this positive and linear relationship is not maintained with regard to the time spent on homework.

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academic achievement, homework engagement, Elementary School

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