3.7.15
By Kiera Footman

• I wanted to research this topic because I was interested to find out what children think about homework.
• I also wanted to know if there was a difference between girls or boys liking or disliking homework.

• My research involved 72 people from the years 1-6 and the age range of 5-11.
• I gave out 72 questionnaires and received 71 back.
• My questionnaires had both open and closed questions.
• I analysed data from closed questions by counting how many times people have ticked from the box.
• I analysed data from open questions by counting how many times an answer comes up.
99% children responded 

All participants signed a consent form.
All data was kept confidential.
The data was kept anonymous by making sure no names were written on the questionnaires.

How many pieces of homework do you get each week?
4+
3
2
1
0 5 10
How many people
15
Female
Male

How do you feel about the amount of homework you receive?
Students
31%
55%
Negative
Neutral
Positive
14%

How do you feel about receiving homework?
0
23%
45% Positive
Neutral
Negative
32%

Do you think your homework is easy, medium or hard?
Column1
42%
14%
44% Easy
Medium
Hard

Would you change the amount of homework you receive?
Unsure
No
Yes
0 10 20
Female
Male

Maths
English
4%
Spellings
P.E
5%
Topic
3%
3%
Computing
French
4%
DT 2%
3%
Science
Projects
3%
3%
Non school subjects
"FUN LESSONS"
Things that we are learning about
5%
Big talk
Reading
Music
1%
5%
12%
1%
30%
16%

• Over half of people who replied were positive about the amount of homework they received
(55%)
• However, less people were positive about homework in general (45%) but many said they felt a neutral feeling towards homework
(32%)
• This shows overall negativity towards homework in Wavendon Gate is quite low.

• 42% of children said homework was hard,
44% of children said homework was easy.
Not many children found it in-between.
• There were very mixed opinions about whether homework should change.
• Although Maths and English were the main subjects set for homework, there was a range of other topics set across the school.
• This seems to suggest that homework is a very personal preference and there isn’t many clues about how it could be changed to help a lot of people.

• I feel my research went very well as I got a high number of questionnaires back.
• I wasn't surprised that girls liked and did more homework then boys.
• I was surprised that boys felt a mix between positive, neutral and negative because I thought that they were going to be negative and neutral, not positive.
• I think my project was successful because I used different ages and genders therefore I received a wider range of responses.

• I would use the semi-structured interview technique.
• I would only use the interview technique with KS1and I would survey KS2 because
I think my questionnaires were a bit confusing for KS1.
• I would also use more closed questions because I feel I used too many open questions in my questionnaire.

I would find out if the children believe the classroom environment impacts the way they learn. So, in a fortnights time they may say “oh this is ok, I listened well and there was nothing to distract me so I know what I'm doing”. But some people might say “oh why didn't I just ignore the silly people and listen, instead of encouraging them to carry on. Now I don ’t know what I'm doing”.