Academic achievement levels and homework involvement in Spanish students of Secondary Education

Abstract

Homework is one of the educational tools that lately have generated major controversies among educators. This paper aims at investigating the relationship between the amount of homework done, time doing homework, and homework time management, considering secondary students academic achievement in the subjects of Mathematics, Spanish language and English. In the current research 613 secondary Spanish students participated. Findings show that high academic achievement is positively associated with a higher amount of homework done, more time doing homework and also with a better homework time management. On the contrary, lower levels of academic achievement on the mentioned subjects are positively associated with a low amount of homework done, less time spent on homework and also with a lower homework time management.