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Systematic Analysis of Homework Related Articles and Theses
 
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Siirt Üniversitesi, TURKEY
 
 
Publication date: 2021-06-30
 
 
Anatolian Journal of Educational Leadership and Instruction 2021;9(1)
 
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Homework is the preparations made for students to reinforce the topics they learn and to adopt a supportive education approach in out-of-class practices. Homework, which provides meaningful information by researching from different sources, enables students to practice on the subject. At the same time, with the homework, the students go into the detail of the subjects learned. Considering this feature of homework, which finds different application areas in traditional and contemporary education approaches, it can be said that it is actually very important. Because homework develops students' skills such as responsibility, problem solving, critical thinking, analyzing relationships between subjects and evaluating. These skills that homework brings to students are included in many studies and discussed with different variables. From this point of view, the problem sentence of this research is to determine the articles and theses on homework by compiling them. In the research, about homework, 21 articles were accessed from the Dergipark database and 8 theses from the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education. The data obtained from the studies downloaded from the database and National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education were subjected to content analysis. As a result of the analyzes, the percentages and frequencies of the studies were presented in tables in the findings section. As a result of the research, it was seen that the most discussed topic in the studies on homework was success. It was concluded that homework was aimed at reinforcement, qualitative studies were used intensively, students participated in the sampling the most, the number of samples was 51 and above, interviews were preferred Homework is the preparations made for students to reinforce the topics they learn and to adopt a supportive education approach in out-of-class practices. Homework, which provides meaningful information by researching from different sources, enables students to practice on the subject. At the same time, with the homework, the students go into the detail of the subjects learned. Considering this feature of homework, which finds different application areas in traditional and contemporary education approaches, it can be said that it is actually very important. Because homework develops students' skills such as responsibility, problem solving, critical thinking, analyzing relationships between subjects and evaluating. These skills that homework brings to students are included in many studies and discussed with different variables. From this point of view, the problem sentence of this research is to determine the articles and theses on homework by compiling them. In the research, about homework, 21 articles were accessed from the Dergipark database and 8 theses from the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education. The data obtained from the studies downloaded from the database and National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education were subjected to content analysis. As a result of the analyzes, the percentages and frequencies of the studies were presented in tables in the findings section. As a result of the research, it was seen that the most discussed topic in the studies on homework was success. It was concluded that homework was aimed at reinforcement, qualitative studies were used intensively, students participated in the sampling the most, the number of samples was 51 and above, interviews were preferred
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