Naslov
Does homework as a learning strategy stimulate additional student overload?

Autori
Peko, Anđelka ; Dubovicki, Snježana ; Munjiza, Emer

Izvornik
Didactica Slovenica - pedagoška obzorja: znanstvena revija za didaktiko (0353-1392) 29 (2014), 3-4; 49-65

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
homework ; classes ; student overload ; Croatian compulsory education

Sažetak
This paper questions if homework is a learning strategy that represents compulsory, optimum or additional indefinite student overload. In the pedagogical theory and practice there are opposite stances as to the mentioned dilemma. It is necessary to analyse the overall overload with school commitments and homework in this context. The results of the research presented in this paper, which are based on empirical evidence, point to the total student overload from the first (6.4 hours per day) to the eighth grade (10.4 hours per day). Analysing the total expected student overload and adding demands relative to homework, it is evident that students are overburdened in Croatian compulsory education. The results of the research conducted suggest that homework as a learning strategy additionally burdens students in Croatian compulsory education. It is necessary to solve the problem of overloaded students in a systematic manner. Disburdening students, which is inevitable, involves dimensioning and forming homework, as a factor of overload in students and it must therefore be modified.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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