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- Title
Why the Dog Eats Nikki's Homework: Making Informed Assignment Decisions.
- Authors
Voorhees, Susan
- Abstract
The article discusses reasons behind incomplete homework. The author argues that, in most cases where students do not complete homework assignments, it is because they faced frustration as well as negative cognitive and affective conditions in approaching the assignment. She suggests that, rather than questioning the purpose of homework, teachers should strive to improve the quality of homework so that all students are capable of completing it and learning from it. She discusses her experience tutoring a fifth-grade student performing at a fourth-grade reading level who was given a homework assignment involving the summary of a text at the twelfth-grade reading level. The actions of teachers who unknowingly cause student frustration are discussed.
- Subjects
HOMEWORK; READING comprehension; FRUSTRATION in children; STUDENT assignments; PSYCHOLOGY of students; READING materials
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2011, Vol 64, Issue 5, p363
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.64.5.8