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Evaluating Articles: I evaluated a Wikipedia page named Homework, I feel like this homework page was related to my topic and a good choice for me to analyze. I read and analyzed the Wikipedia page, and have edited the page.

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I think you did a very good job at providing facts and evidence for proving that homework is not beneficial to students. However, I think that you should try and provide facts and evidence proving that homework can be beneficial to students as well. Right now it kind of seems like your biased to one side, the homework is not beneficial to students side. Your sources were very well done, and I think everything else was great!

Some information I added to my article so that it doesn't sound biased, and to provide more information on the topic.
Some may argue that homework is beneficial to students. Teachers believe that homework contributes to the enhancement of learning, and development of the skills taught in class. “Assigning homework is a good way for teachers to check whether students understand what’s being taught” (Grohnke and Merritt 7). Teachers also believe that “homework helps kids develop good study habits, which they’ll need in high school and college” (Grohnke and Merritt 7). In 2012, the Southern Economic Journal was published, which covers the studies of exam performance based on homework completion. Two professors at Virginia Tech University studied the homework issue, and published the Journal. According to the results of a unique experimental method, it was found that the completion of assigned homework is positively correlated with higher scores on some exams. They claim that homework is given by teachers to help students improve their knowledge on topics taught in class. Along with improving your knowledge, homework also improves your study habits. Their reasoning for the claims is that the homework given by teachers is based on the topics learned in class. Doing that homework will help you learn how to apply what’s being taught in different ways, and help expand your knowledge. The two professors at Virginia Tech University use logical evidence to support their reasons. They use factual evidence based off of the results of their study. “Results of the instrumental variables analysis, as well as results of a variety of other analyses, indicate that the completion of the assigned homework is positively correlated with higher scores on the mid terms” (Trost and Salehi-Isfahani 224-243). There are also statistics included in the journal that support their claim that completing homework improves test performance. Homework is not beneficial to students. Homework should be limited to a maximum of two hours a night, because excessive amounts of homework leads to fatigued, stressed students. What is a reasonable limit for homework a night? We all have a point of diminishing return, but what if that point reaches us before completing our homework. The father of an eighth-grade daughter states that “during the school week, she averages 3 to 4 hours of homework a night and six and a half hours of sleep.” The excessive amounts of homework outside of the classroom, affects our performance in the classroom. Instead of doing all our homework after school, we could be better serving our community, and making a difference in the world. Most students agree that homework is stressful, and sometimes difficult to complete. Students state that sometimes they’re “bursting into tears midway” (Winnie A1), through their homework. Parents see their children struggling with completing homework, and the effects it has on them. Karl Greenfeld watches his “daughter struggle through school days on too little sleep” (Greenfeld), as an effect of too much homework. Parents state that “the presence of homework is negatively affecting the health of young people, and the equality of family time” (Loveless 17-24). Most students and parents would agree that they could be doing a lot more to help the community, and their family if students didn’t have as much homework. The results of a study “indicate that the completion of the assigned homework is positively correlated with higher scores on the midterms but not on the final exam – indicating “decay” in the homework effect over the course of the semester” (Trost and Salehi-Isfahani 224-243). Homework has “fueled a nightly grind that is stressing out children and depriving them of play and rest, yet doing little to raise achievement, especially in elementary grades” (Loveless 17-24). Work cited: