Homework (senior school teacher survey)

One of the tasks that Tom Batty has given the Academic Review Committee is to look at the issue of homework in the Senior School. Your responses to this short survey will be very helpful in this task.


  1. Please select the Year levels that you are teaching this year.
    7
    8
    9
    10
    11
    12


  1. This question is about the number of occasions that you (generally) set homework at each year level.

    Each division on the scale corresponds to about 20%, so if you set homework 20% of the time, choose 2; 40% of the time, choose 3, and so on.)



            1 2 3 4 5 6      
      Year 7 0% 100%  
      Year 8 0% 100%  
      Year 9 0% 100%  
      Year 10 0% 100%  
      Year 11 0% 100%  
      Year 12 0% 100%  


  1. This question is about the homework completion rate of students of students in your classes. Please indicate, for students at each year level that you teach, about what percentage of them complete the homework on or close to the due date. (Note: each button corresponds to a 20% increment.)

            1 2 3 4 5 6      
      Year 7 0% 100%  
      Year 8 0% 100%  
      Year 9 0% 100%  
      Year 10 0% 100%  
      Year 11 0% 100%  
      Year 12 0% 100%  


  1. When students do not complete their homework, they may give reasons for this. Which of the following are the most common reasons given for non-completion of homework? (You can select more than one option.)
    I had too much homework to do.
    I had too many other activities.
    There were too many distractions.
    I just couldn't get started.
    I did not understand the work.
    There was no-one to help me when I got stuck.
    I did not think the homework was very important.
    I don't need to do homework.
    I was just too tired.
    It was just too boring.
    I did not think you would check it.
    Other (see next question)


  1. Feel free to add any comments about what prevents your students completing their homework in your subject(s).


  1. This questions is about distractions that hinder your students completing their homework. Please list which of the following you think are the most common distractions for them. (You can select more than one option).
    television
    internet/computer games
    internet networking (eg Facebook, Twitter,...)
    reading books or magazines
    listening to music
    playing or practising music
    talking to friends (telephone or face to face)
    other (see next question)


  1. Please add any more detail about distractions that you think stop students from completing their homework.


  1. Which of the following best applies to your rate of homework checking?
    I seldom check
    I check about 25% of the time
    I check about 50% of the time
    I check about 75% of the time
    I almost always check that homework is done


  1. This question is about how often you give students feedback on their homework. The term feedback means that a grade, comment or advice has been given to each student.

    How often do you give such feedback on homework?


     
      1 2 3 4  
    seldom or never  always


  1. It is sometimes difficult to return homework that you have collected as promptly as you would wish. Please rate your level of success in returning homework promptly.
     
      1 2 3 4  
    not successful  very successful


  1. This question is about how often you set the following kinds of homework.

            1 2 3 4      
      complete work unfinished in class seldom or never frequently  
      practice routines to improve fluency or memory seldom or never frequently  
      preview work to be covered in class seldom or never frequently  
      review/revise work covered in class seldom or never frequently  
      prepare for test/exams seldom or never frequently  
      research work and projects seldom or never frequently  
      tackle some challenge/extension work seldom or never frequently  
      other (see next question) seldom or never frequently  


  1. Please add any other kinds of homework you use quite often.


  1. When students do not complete their homework, what consequences do you most commonly employ? (You can select more than one option.)
    encourage and remind
    demerit points
    formal detention
    require them to see you out of class
    email or telephone parent(s)
    write a note in the record book to parent(s)
    talk to Head of Year
    talk to student's tutor
    set an extra task of some kind
    other (see next question)


  1. Please add any comments you have about the previous question.


  1. We are interested in any other comments you have about homework in the senior school.