High school English compositions written at home differ negligibly from those written at school in form and content¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1914 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Across 150 marked compositions, home compositions were 0.4 percent better in form and 0.9 percent better in content than school compositions — differences the author calls negligible in school practice. → Heck 1914 q2 i? Subgroup comparisons show home compositions of boys 1.2 and 2.4 percent better in form and content, while girls' home compositions were 0.4 percent better in form and 0.2 percent worse in content. → Heck 1914 (2)

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 composition experiment in the high school: two groups each wrote one composition in school and one at home on closely allied local topics; papers were marked blind for form and content by one rater. The author reports differences "so small as to be negligible in school practice."

"Table II shows that the home compositions as a whole are but 0.4 per cent, better in form than the school compositions and but 0.9 per cent, better in content—differences so small as to be negligible in school practice."

Heck 1914 (2)¶

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

Secondary subgroup analysis of the same composition experiment: averages for 31 boys and 44 girls. The author attributes the smaller differences among girls to the proportionately better work of the girls in school.

"The home compositions of the boys were found to be 1.2 percent, and 2.4 percent, better in form and content, respectively, than their school com- positions, and the home compositions of the girls were found to be 0.4 percent, better in form and 0.2 percent, worse in content"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Student work varies more in the uniform school environment than across varied home environments — related
• Counterbalancing test forms across home and school settings neutralized the practice effect — related