Abstract

SUEHIRO, Adriana Cristina Boulhoça  and  BORUCHOVITCH, Evely. Homework habits and strategies and demographic variables in Elementary School II students. Psico (Porto Alegre) [online]. 2016, vol.47, n.2, pp. 132-139. ISSN 1980-8623.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2016.2.22729.

 To describe habits and strategies students employ to do homework and to identify age, state, gender, and school year related differences in these habits and strategies were the objectives of the present study. The sample was composed of 426 students, with ages range between 10 and 17 years, from the sixth to the ninth school year of a public elementary schools in the states of São Paulo and Bahia. Data were collected by means of an identification questionnaire and a Likert type scale. Results showed that students had good habits and strategies for doing homework. Significant differences emerged only for age and state in which students lived. No significant differences were found due to gender and school grade level.

Keywords : Homework; Self-regulated learning; Learning strategies.

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