Time students spend working at home for school

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-320

  Wagner, Petra ^a   Schober, Barbara ^b   Spiel, Christiane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Homework; Learning time; Scholastic achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649098726     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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