Home work in arithmetic can be done as well as school work, with overall differences close to zero¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1914 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Across 141 students in six grammar grades, home work in arithmetic differed from school work by only 0.14 point in favor of home work (average of all students) or 0.04 point in favor of school work (average of class averages). → Heck 1914

Evidence¶

Heck 1914¶

Heck, W. H. (1914). Comparative tests of home work and school work. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1412814

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Balanced-assignment experiment in the Harrisonburg public school: 141 students in grades 5A-8 did one computation and one reasoning test at school and one of each at home, with practice effects neutralized. The author reports the difference "so close to 0" — 0.14 point (0.7%) favoring home work by student average, 0.04 point favoring school work by class averages.

"It is easily seen from Table I that the difference is so close to 0 as to be moved a tiny fraction above or below by the method of calculation: 0.14 point, or seven-tenths of one per cent., in favor of home work"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Counterbalancing test forms across home and school settings neutralized the practice effect — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Formal home math environment moderates the effect of parental math skills on children's arithmetic skills, showing a protective (gap-closing) effect for higher-risk children — related