Students from advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds do not benefit significantly more from homework than their peers in eighth grade¶

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Currency · newest study 2023 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Individual treatment effect estimates show no clear trend across parental education levels or number of books at home, in either subject or at either homework frequency. → Nathan McJames 2023

Evidence¶

Nathan McJames 2023¶

Nathan McJames, Andrew Parnell, and Ann O'Shea. (2023). Little and Often: Causal Inference Machine Learning Demonstrates the Benefits of Homework for Improving Achievement in Mathematics and Science. https://timssandpirls.bc.edu/timss2019/international-results

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Secondary moderation analysis of the TIMSS 2019 Irish eighth-grade sample, plotted in Figure 4, examining parental education and home educational resources as moderators of homework treatment effects in mathematics and science. The article states this "lack of a clear trend here is evident in both subjects and at both frequencies".

"The results show no clear trend, indicating that regardless of the number of books a student has at home, or the level of education of their parents, all students are predicted to benefit by approximately the same amount from the homework they are assigned."

Discussion¶

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