quickly. Other students need more time and effort to get to automaticity. As with any skill, if you don’t use it you lose it, so to retain automaticity, you must revisit the skill often. It is with this thought in mind that I chose to not include the homework completion grade in the students’ grades. Having the data of how many problems were completed provided me with the information necessary to make an informed decision as to whether the student had done enough practice to be successful at a task. If homework is not getting done and quiz and test scores are below acceptable levels, then more practice is necessary. On the other hand if homework is not getting done but quiz and test scores are satisfactory, then all is well in my train of thought, as that student does not need as much practice as others. If another student is completing their homework and is still not performing well on the quiz and test, then instruction needs to change. When homework completion was compared to test scores, it was determined that there was a positive correlation between the amount of homework completed and the test scores. The homework completion average was 77.05%, the quiz average was 90.07%, and the test average was 86.62%. The numbers tell me that for most students, even if they didn’t completely finish homework, they performed well on the quiz and test.
quickly. Other students need more time and effort to get to automaticity. As with any skill, if you don’t use it you lose it, so to retain automaticity, you must revisit the skill often. It is with this thought in mind that I chose to not include the homework completion grade in the students’ grades. Having the data of how many problems were completed provided me with the information necessary to make an informed decision as to whether the student had done enough practice to be successful at a task. If homework is not getting done and quiz and test scores are below acceptable levels, then more practice is necessary. On the other hand if homework is not getting done but quiz and test scores are satisfactory, then all is well in my train of thought, as that student does not need as much practice as others. If another student is completing their homework and is still not performing well on the quiz and test, then instruction needs to change. When homework completion was compared to test scores, it was determined that there was a positive correlation between the amount of homework completed and the test scores. The homework completion average was 77.05%, the quiz average was 90.07%, and the test average was 86.62%. The numbers tell me that for most students, even if they didn’t completely finish homework, they performed well on the quiz and test.