Abstract
Students, teachers, counselors, and parents are allimportant in determining the degree to which homeworkis effective in meeting its goals. Teachersassign homework, parents provide the environmentin which it is done, and students—each with aunique profile of motivation and preference forlearning—do the homework. It is a challenge foreveryone involved to cooperate, share informationabout children's homework motivation and preferences,and develop strategies to be used at schooland at home to attain a better match between whatthe child likes to do and has to do when learning.This article—prepared to assist teachers, parents, andcounselors to meet this challenge—describes a conceptualhomework model and a technique of assessinghomework motivation and preferences based onthe model. Intervention strategies for how to use thisknowledge to make students' homework performancemore effective and enjoyable are suggested.
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