It's important to add here that homework has never been shown to improve grades or educational outcomes generally, and it's a very well-studied topic.
Parents in poorer countries devote more time to their kids' homework
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#12It's important to add here that homework has never been shown to improve grades or educational outcomes generally, and it's a very well-studied topic.
It has absolutely helped me to drill in my multiplication tables and learn to write at least somewhat legible letters.
If there is one thing I regret about my college years it is not doing math assignments.
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#13It's important to add here that homework has never been shown to improve grades or educational outcomes generally, and it's a very well-studied topic.
Here you go: https://www.binghamton.edu/economics/research/old-working-pa...
Linking to a single study is useless unless the topic is something very specific and the linked study happens to be a match (for the specifics being discussed).
That said, OPs comment is overly broad and devoid of specifics, so okay, you refuted his "never".
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here you go: https://www.binghamton.edu/economics/research/old-working-pa...
Linking to a single study is useless unless the topic is something very specific and the linked study happens to be a match (for the specifics being discussed). That said, OPs comment is overly broad and devoid of specifics, so okay, you refuted his "never".
Isn't it OP's job to present proof for his claim? He just made a sweeping statement with no proof backing it up.
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#15National income is correlated with percent of population in workforce. Poorer countries are correlated with lower levels of total employment. Assuming all else being equal then parents with less time involved in employment will have more time for other activities, including spending time with children. Is this right?
> National income is correlated with percent of population in workforce. Poorer countries are correlated with lower levels of total employment.
How did you draw that conclusion? Do you have any data for this?
Intuitively I'd expect poor people to work more since they still need a baseline amount of money (food, rent, etc.) and it takes them longer to get it.
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On the other hand, parental involvement in their children's education has been shown to have a positive impact on children's development.
How did they distinguish parental involvement specifically in education from the fact that supportive, encouraging parents are likely to engage with their child's education? I ask because my instinct is that emotional stability and encouragement are probably more important than homework.
> emotional stability and encouragement are probably more important than homework
I'm not sure if there is any work directly comparing the two, but it's true that emotional stability and encouragement are very important.
"The most determinative factor in parental involvement appears to be what could be called: good parenthood in the home situation (Desforges & Abouchaar, 2003; Fantuzzo et al., 2004; McWayne et al., 2004). This factor is characterised by the establishing of a safe and stable home setting, stimulation of intellectual development e.g. by discussions between parent and child, modeling, disseminating the importance of education and fostering high expectations about children’s school success." [0]
[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265632472_Parental_...
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#17National income is correlated with percent of population in workforce. Poorer countries are correlated with lower levels of total employment. Assuming all else being equal then parents with less time involved in employment will have more time for other activities, including spending time with children. Is this right?
In poorer countries, getting an education is the easiest way out of poverty.
All else is not equal here.
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#18This should have been done in terms of percentage of time taken by child to do homework and how much of that parents get involved in.
There is huge difference in amount of homework given in countries like India and that in Australia.
We cannot compare that in exact hours.
Just my 2cents.
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#19It's important to add here that homework has never been shown to improve grades or educational outcomes generally, and it's a very well-studied topic.
Isn't practice important?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
please don't think about it in terms of first world problems of time management. it is more like, they are poor and they want kids to get a solid education and get good jobs and lead a happier, fulfilling life compared to them. fyi: username is a function of yours'.
please don't think about it in terms of "the virtues of unfortunate". Everyone wants "kids to get a solid education and get good jobs and lead a happier, fulfilling life". please, rather, try to think about it in terms of what best-explains the difference. this data seems highly inversely correlated with productivity, in countries with lower productivity, people spend more time with their child. Time available seems…
> Everyone wants "kids to get a solid education..."
No, this is not universal. There are parents who had a bad experience of education and think that is universal, and those who fear that their children will move away if they become educated. It's one of the challenges of teaching in particular areas.