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Nobody Knows How Well Homework Works

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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Randomized Study of Home Work in Elementary School

Cooper finds six real randomized studies of home work. None are published or peer reviewed. Only one is randomized by students, and it contradicts itself about how random it actually was. The other five are cluster randomized by class room which means they have a very low effective sample size. Still, these pretty consistently show a positive effect with medium to higher size.

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