TOPIC: Homework Help for Educators, Students, and Parents

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Guidance Notes


• Homework is a Mental Health Concern
Introductory Packet

• Parent and Home Involvement in Schools
• Note: Please refer to Section IV of this packet entitled Helping Parents Help Their Children.

Technical Aid Packet

• After-School programs and Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Guiding Parents in Helping Children Learn
• Note: Please refer specifically to Section III of this packet entitled Guides and Other Basic Resources Parents can Draw Upon to Enhance Children's Learning and Performance.

Technical Assistance Samplers

• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Parenting Education
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Adult Education/Family Literacy
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Mobilizing the Home to Address Students' Basic Needs

Resource Aid Packet

• Addressing Barriers to Learning A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Improving Teaching and Learning Supports by Addressing the Rhythm of a Year

Quickfinds

• The Enabling Component
• Home Involvement in Schooling- Outcomes

Training Tutorial

• Home Involvement in Schooling

• Avoiding the Homework Blues
• Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities.
• Guidelines for schools in developing a school based homework policy
• Helping Students with Homework in Science and Math
• Helping Your Students With Homework: A Guide for Teachers
• Homework: What Does the Research Say?
• Homework: Trials and Tribulations. From the NYU Child Study Center
• Homework as an Issue in American Politics
• Homework Causes Family Arguments
• "...Homework in the United States is an Easy Load"
• Homework Policies That Support Students with Disabilities
• Homework Policy
• Homework Research and Policy:A Review of the Literature
• "Homework Sharing Tool": A Resource for Providing Homework Feedback to Students
• Homework Tools: Interventions for Handling Parent-Child Conflicts Over Homework
• Homework wars provoke debate: Experts face off over importance of after-school assignments
• How School Troubles Come Home: The Impact of Homework on Families of Struggling Learners
• One School's Homework Philosophy and Corresponding Policies
• Online Homework: Does it Make a Difference.
• Parental involvement in homework: a review of current research and its implications for teacher, after school program staff, and parent leaders
• Research Shows Homework Does Boost Academic Achievement; But Overemphasizing Grades And Performance May Lead To Cheating
• So what is there to say about homework?
• The Balanced View: Homework
• The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning
• The Trouble With Homework

• Homework House
• Teachers.net
• Teachnet.com
• Topmarks
• Discovery's Lesson Plan Page
• Homework Elephant
• Homework Helper
• HomeworkSpot.com
• InfoPlease

• Albert, S. R., Nelson, J. S., Brennan, K. B. (2002). A comparative analysis of two homework study methods on elementary and secondary school students' acquisition and maintenance of social studies content. Education & Treatment of Children, Vol. 25, 172-196.
• Bryan, T., Burstein, K., Bryan, J. (2001). Students with learning disabilities: Homework problems and promising practices. Educational Psychologist, Vol. 36, p 167-180.
• Cooper, H. (2001). The battle over homework: Common ground for administrators, teachers, and parents. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
• Epstein, J. L., Van Voorhis, F. L. (2001). More than minutes: Teachers' roles in designing homework, Educational Psychologist, Vol. 36, 181-193.
• Hone, E., Lee, K. (2003). Parental awareness of their children's homework motivation and preference and its relationship to achievement. International Journal of Adolescence & Youth, Vol. 11, 231-249.
• Hoover-Dempsey, K. V.; Battiato, A. C, Joan, M. T., Reed, R. P., DeJong, J. M., Jones, K. P. (2001). Parental involvement in homework. Educational Psychologist, Vol. 36, 195-209.
• How to Help With Your Teen's Homework (Without Doing it for Them): A Guide for Parents of Middle School and High School Students. Atlantic Publishing Group Inc, 2011. Print.
• Killoran, I. (2003). Why is your homework not done? How theories of development affect your approach in the classroom. Journal of Instructional Psychology, Vol. 30, 309-315.
• Plloway, E. A., Bursuck, W. D., Michael, H. (2001). Homework for students with learning disabilities: The challenge of home-school communication. Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, Vol. 17, 181-187.
• Shiller, V. M., Schneider, M. F. (2003). "I hardly have any!" Reducing homework blues. In Shiller V. M., & Schnieder, M. F. (Eds.) Rewards for Kids!: Ready-to-use charts and activities for positive parenting. pp105-116. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Solomon, Y., Warin, J., Lewis, C. (2002). Helping with homework? Homework as a site of tension for parents and teenagers. British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 28, 603-622.
• Theodore, L. A., Kehle, T. J., Bray, M. (2004). Homework success for children with ADHD: A family-school intervention program. Psychology in the Schools, Vol. 41, 274-274.
• Toney, L. P., Kelley, M. L., Lanclos, N. F. (2003). Self- and parental monitoring of homework behavior problems. Child & Family Behavior Therapy, Vol. 25, 35-51.
• Trautwein, U., Koeller, O. (2003). The relationship between homework and achievement--Still much of a mystery. Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 15, 115-145.
• Trautwein, U., Koeller, O., Schmitz, B., Baumert, J. (2002). Do homework assignments enhance achievement? A multilevel analysis in 7th-grade mathematics. (2002). Contemporary Educational Psychology. Vol. 27, 26-50.
• Warton, P. M. (2001). The forgotten voices in homework: Views of students. Educational Psychologist, Vol. 36, 155-165.
• Xu, J., Yuan, R. (2003). Doing homework: Listening to students', parents',and teachers' voices in one urban middle school community. School Community Journal, Vol. 13, 25-44.

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