Synthesis of Research on Homework - ASCD

[Pages:8]ciently

improved

acdemi

acom

plishment

to

justify

1950,

p

380)

Eighten

retnio" years

(Oto

later,

PR

Wildman

went

a

step

furthe,

staing

tha

"whenvr

homewrk

crowds

out

Sr and

recation, whenvr

to

slep,

it

it

is

not

meting

the

basic

neds

of

children

and

adolescnt"

(Wildman

1968,

p

203)

Today,

it

is

hard

to

fathom

how

thes

educators

could

have

arived

at

such

negativ

aprisl

of

homewrk.

We

must

realiz,

presnt

atliude

in

the

belif

ihat

howevr,

is

a

third

homewrk

tha renaisc

has

our ped

agoicl

value

When

the

20th

century

began,

the

mind

was

viewd

as

a

muscle

tha

could

benfit

from

men

tal

exrcis,

meorizatn

home,

homewrk

god

During

in

education

fel

out

or

meorizatn

Since

could

be

done

at

was

viewd

as

the

1940s,

the

emphasi

shifted

from

dril

to

of

favor

The

launch

of

Sputnik

by

the

Rusian

in

the

1950s

revsd

this

trend.

The

public

woried

tha

edu

cation

lacked

unpread

gies

Homewrk,

rigo for

and complex

it

left was

children technol

belivd,

could

acelrt

knowledg

acquis

tion.

The

1960s

witnesd

yet

another

revsal,

with

homewrk

sympto

of

nedls

viewd presu

as

a

on

studen

coner

emphasi

the

neglct

fuliment

Wildman

of

the

time

on

schol

of

other

In

the

exprsd tha

would ares 1980s,

to

much

lead

of

personal

homewrk

the to

has

agin

come

to

the

fore

A

primay

stimul

behind

its

remgnc

was

the

repot

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