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Handout: Examples of Short Homework that Works

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Selected Literature on Homework

What types of homework make significant impacts on student understanding?

Akasheh, F., & Echempati, R., & Sala, A. L. (2012, June), Assessment of Student Learning through Homework Intervention Method Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.

Bransford, J.D., A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, How People Learn. 2000, Washington, D.C.: National
Academy Press.

Marzano, R.J., D.J. Pickering, and J.E. Pollock, Classroom instruction that works: research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. 2001, Alexandria,VA: ASCD.

WHAT factors affect student motivation to complete homework?

Svinicki, M.D., Learning and motivation in the postsecondary classroom. 2004, San Francisco: Jossey-
Bass Publishers.

Passow, H.J., et al., Factors influencing engineering students' decisions to cheat by type of assessment.
Research in Higher Education, 2006. 47(6): p. 643. 

Bembenutty, H., Self-regulation of homework completion. Psychology Today, 2009. 6(4): p. 138-153.

How can homework be used for feedback to students and formative assessment data?

Ruiz-Primo, M. A., & Furtak, E. M. (2007). Exploring teachers' informal formative assessment practices and students' understanding in the context of scientific inquiry. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 44(1), 57-84.

Chappuis, J. (2015). Seven strategies of assessment for learning. Boston: Pearson.