Homework Purposes in Eighth Grade Students: Identifying Student Profiles and Their Relationship with Homework Effort, Completion, and Achievement

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Psicothema Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.7334/psicothema2022.334

Jianzhong Xu, José C Núñez

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Background: The main objective of the research was (1) to identify different profiles of students based on three purposes they had for homework (academic, self-regulatory and approval-seeking) and (2) to analyze their relationship with the homework effort, completion, and math achievement.

Method: The study involved 3,018 eighth-grade students from various 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 all purposes; 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 the purposes, the greater the homework effort, completion, and higher math performance.

Conclusions: The results of our study 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 implications both for the student's behavior (for example, in terms of their involvement in homework and academic achievement) and for the educational practice of teachers and families.

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八年级学生的家庭作业目的:确定学生概况及其与家庭作业努力、完成和成就的关系

背景:本研究的主要目的是:(1)根据学生作业的三个目的(学术、自律和寻求批准)来确定他们的不同特征;(2)分析他们与作业努力、完成情况和数学成绩的关系。方法:研究对象为3018名来自中国不同地区的八年级学生。采用Mplus潜剖面分析(Latent Profile Analysis, LPA)对数据进行分析。结果:正如假设的那样，确定了四种不同的特征:高特征(所有目的都很高;13.39%)，中等概况(所有用途均为中等;56.63%)，低调(所有方面都很低调;26.04%)，以及非常低调(在所有方面都非常低调;3.94%)。属于某一类型与家庭作业的努力程度、完成程度和数学成绩有关:目标越高，家庭作业的努力程度、完成程度和数学成绩越高。结论:我们的研究结果表明，不同年龄(即八年级和十一年级)的个体群体(相似的概况)之间存在一定的相似性和一致性。属于其中一种或另一种可能会对学生的行为(例如，在他们参与家庭作业和学业成绩方面)以及教师和家庭的教育实践产生不同的后果或影响。

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Psicothema PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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24 weeks

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