Making Homework Work
Effective Approaches in the Secondary School
Published on 1. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-335-21630-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book looks at the contribution that homework tasks do or do not make to student learning and raises some fundamental issues surrounding homework as well as providing clear practical advice for teachers setting homework, on the selection of homework tasks, how they should be presented to students, the support and feedback that students find most useful and the ways in which parents can be involved in supporting homework.
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Persons
Martin Hughes is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol, and has just completed a three-year term as Head of the Graduate School of Education. Pamela Greenhough is a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She is currently engaged on the Home School Knowledge Exchange Project.