Homework
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HOME LEARNING FRAMEWORK
Impact of Home Learning
Students with an “outstanding” commitment to homework achieved, on average, over ½ a GCSE grade better (+0.53).
Students with a ‘requires improvement” commitment to homework underperformed, on average, by more than 1 grade (-1.18).
Types of Home Learning
High impact homework will be:
Highly structured
Focused on practising using knowledge and skills that have been secured already
Used as a short, focused intervention, with a specific target and connected with a particular element of learning
Learning tasks
Practice tasks
Tasks that can be self-checked for immediate feedback (e.g. MS Form, Seneca, self-marking quizzes etc.)
Occasional structured research tasks
Occasional redrafting tasks