Here is one of my writing tasks on 6th semester,,
A critical review of Steven A. Carbone II 2009, ‘The Value of Homework:
Is Homework an Important Tool for Learning in the Classroom?’, Student Pulse; Online
Academic Student Journal, VOL 1, 12.
Homework, a form of formative assessment that is mostly applied in school
in order to improve student achievement, still becomes a contentious topic to
be discussed. Carbone II (2009) in his article states the need of written
homework policy that should be provided in every school in order to track
student learning since homework has a positive correlation with student achievement.
The article exposes the result of some studies related to this topic which
mostly point out the importance of homework. Though its importance, the
implementation of homework has not been worked well yet. Furthermore, a new
experiment which is followed by 10.000 students revealed that they who are
troubled with homework achieved lower scores in their achievement. Even, homework
simply makes students unhappy then leads them to have no interest in learning.
Concerning with those issues, providing homework policy in every school is not
an effective way to solve the problems resulted from homework.
