Homework Purposes in Eighth Grade Students: Identifying Student Profiles and Their Relationship with Homework Effort, Completion, and Achievement / Razones Para Hacer los Deberes Escolares: Identificación de Perfiles y su Asociación con el Esfuerzo Dedicado, los Deberes Completados y el Rendimiento
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Background:
The main objective of the research was (1) to identify different profiles of students based on three purposesthey had for homework (academic, self-regulatory and approval-seeking) and (2) to analyze their relationship with thehomework effort, completion, and math achievement.
Method:
The study involved 3,018 eighth-grade students fromvarious areas in China. Data were analyzed with Mplus using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA).
Results:
As hypothesized,four different profiles were identified High Profile (high in all purposes; 13.39%), Moderate Profile (moderate in allpurposes; 56.63%), Low Profile (low in all purposes; 26.04%), and Very Low Profile (very low in all purposes; 3.94%).Belonging to a certain profile was related to the homework effort, completion, and math achievement the higher thepurposes, the greater the homework effort, completion, and higher math performance.
Conclusions:
The results of ourstudy suggest certain similarities and consistency between individual groups (similar profiles) at different ages (i.e.,eighth and eleventh graders). Belonging to one or the other profile may have different consequences or implicationsboth for the students behavior (for example, in terms of their involvement in homework and academic achievement)and for the educational practice of teachers and families.(AU)
Antecedentes El principal objetivo de la investigación ha sido (1) identificar diferentes perfiles de estudiantes a partirde tres de sus propósitos para realizar deberes (académico, auto-regulación y de búsqueda de aprobación) y (2) analizarsu relación con el esfuerzo dedicado a la realización de los deberes, la cantidad de deberes finalizados y el rendimientoen matemáticas.
Método:
El estudio involucró a 3,018 estudiantes de octavo grado de diferentes áreas geográficas deChina. Los datos se analizaron mediante Análisis de Perfiles latentes (LPA).
Resultados:
Se identificaron cuatro perfilesdiferentes alto en los tres propósitos (13,39%), moderado en los tres propósitos (56,63%), bajo en los tres propósitos(26,04%) y muy bajo en los tres propósitos (3,94%). Pertenecer a un determinado perfil se relaciona significativay positivamente con el esfuerzo dedicado a los deberes, la cantidad de deberes finalizados y con el rendimiento enmatemáticas.