Thoughts on “Do we really need to assign homework?”

Dr. Nathan Belcher
1 min readOct 13, 2023

A level-headed article on the usefulness of homework by Michael Pershan — titled “Do we really need to assign homework?”

I teach high school physics, so my students are mostly grade 10, 11, and 12. All the “homework” I give to students is additional practice, encouraging students to do as much or as little as they need to feel confident in their understanding. Each set is leveled with easier, medium, and hard problems, plus we have frequent and smaller assessments — I’ve found this homework-and-assessment strategy helps students deeply learn the knowledge and skills in physics!

For more information, here are some articles for my course setup:

In your overall assessment structure, how do you use homework?

Let me know by adding a comment!

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Dr. Nathan Belcher

Founder of "The Learning Engine" -- Helping people learn and grow through the principles of learning. W&M: B.S '08, M.A.Ed '10, U of SC: Ed.D. '17