Assessing Children's Homework Performance: Development of Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Informant Rating Scales

Autor/inn/en	Power, Thomas J.; Dombrowski, Stefan C.; Watkins, Marley W.; Mautone, Jennifer A.; Eagle, John W.
Titel	Assessing Children's Homework Performance: Development of Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Informant Rating Scales
Quelle	In: Journal of School Psychology, 45 (2007) 3, S.333-348 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4405
DOI	10.1016/j.jsp.2007.02.002
Schlagwörter	Program Effectiveness; Student Responsibility; Rating Scales; Factor Analysis; Homework; Measurement Techniques; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; Competence; Context Effect; Test Construction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rating-Skala; Faktorenanalyse; Hausaufgabe; Messtechnik; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Kompetenz; Testaufbau
Abstract	Efforts to develop interventions to improve homework performance have been impeded by limitations in the measurement of homework performance. This study was conducted to develop rating scales for assessing homework performance among students in elementary and middle school. Items on the scales were intended to assess student strengths as well as deficits in homework performance. The sample included 163 students attending two school districts in the Northeast. Parents completed the 36-item Homework Performance Questionnaire-Parent Scale (HPQ-PS). Teachers completed the 22-item teacher scale (HPQ-TS) for each student for whom the HPQ-PS had been completed. A common factor analysis with principal axis extraction and promax rotation was used to analyze the findings. The results of the factor analysis of the HPQ-PS revealed three salient and meaningful factors: student task orientation/efficiency, student competence, and teacher support. The factor analysis of the HPQ-TS uncovered two salient and substantive factors: student responsibility and student competence. The findings of this study suggest that the HPQ is a promising set of measures for assessing student homework functioning and contextual factors that may influence performance. Directions for future research are presented. (Author).
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