The way we traditionally give homework assignments is a one
of the major reasons kids dislike school.
Most homework in middle school and high school is copied or completed by someone else. Low homework grades often pull down otherwise
good test performance grades and teachers spend a lot of time grading
homework. It can be argued that that
time could be used to prepare lessons.
A
different approach is to assign homework, don’t collect it, instead give a
short quiz at the beginning of class that has a few of the problems, items,
etc. from the homework, grade the quiz quickly. This quiz can help understand what the students
understand rather than what was copied or completed by someone else. This approach can also reduce pressure on the
students and teacher grading time.
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