Homework Assignment and Assessment Practices in Grade-1 in Public Schools

Abstract

This quantitative survey study tends to explore the current homework assignment and evaluation practices in Pakistan like perception of teachers about homework, purposes of assigning homework and type of feedback strategies adopted by teachers for homework evaluation. The sample was the 100 (57 female, 43 male) junior school teachers and 275 (125 male, 150 female) students of 1st and 2nd classes of Sargodha city. Two research instruments Teachers’ questionnaire regarding homework practices, Homework assessment analysis checklist, were developed and used on the bases of four factors planning, assigning, feedback and advantages of homework. It was concluded that the female teachers were better in planning, assigning and evaluation of homework than the male teachers. Data obtained from checklist revealed that majority of the teachers did not focus on written comments, correction of mistakes and subject relevant comments. Most of the teachers’ assigned revision based homework and did not focus on other higher level purposes of assigning homework.