Elementary and Secondary Education
Student Effort, Persistence and Progress
Table 21-1. Percentage distribution of 10th-graders reporting time spent on homework, by hours spent on homework per week: 1980 and 2002
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All
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Male
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Female
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| Hours spent per week |
1980 |
2002 |
|
1980 |
2002 |
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1980 |
2002 |
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| Total |
100 |
100 |
|
100 |
100 |
|
100 |
100 |
| Less than 1 |
17 |
2 |
|
21 |
2 |
|
13 |
1 |
| Between 1 and 3 |
29 |
21 |
|
31 |
24 |
|
28 |
19 |
| More than 3 but less than 5 |
25 |
14 |
|
24 |
14 |
|
26 |
14 |
| Between 5 and 10 |
22 |
26 |
|
18 |
26 |
|
25 |
26 |
| More than 10 |
7 |
37 |
|
6 |
33 |
|
8 |
41 |
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NOTE: Caution must be used when interpreting the estimates reported here because the survey method used to ask about time spent on homework per week differed in 1980 and 2002. The 1980 survey asked about “homework” without differentiating between homework completed in school and out of school; it also used the categories reported here as predefined response categories. The 2002 survey asked separately about in-school and out-of-school homework and used an open-ended response format. The 2002 responses to both questions were then grouped into the 1980 response categories. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
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SOURCE: Cahalan, M., Ingels, S., Burns, L., Planty, M., and Daniel, B. (2006). United States High School Sophomores: A Twenty-Two Year Comparison, 1980–2002 (NCES 2006-327), data from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores (HS&B-So:80) and Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, Base Year (ELS:2002).
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