This project aiming to focus on students’ assignments, and tries to find a way to make the assignments and homework more valued. According to the research shows that “schooling occupies only about thirteen percent of the waking hours of the first 18 years of life,” which is less than the amount of time students spend watching television (Fraser, Walberg, Welch, & Hattie, 1987), homework regarded as an effective method to extend study time. As Keith's research shows that GPA raised about half a point through thirty minutes homework per day, which means if a student has 3.00 GPA, after do homework 30 minutes per night, his or her grade will increase up to 3.50. Therefore, teachers would like give assignments as many as they can. However, too much homework will increase stress for students. A survey of ten high-performing high schools led by Stanford University in 2014 which showed that fifty-six percent students considered homework is the primary source of pressure, and student of those ten schools spent 3.1 hours on homework. In 2006, Cooper and his team did a meta-analysis about homework, and said “Even for high school students, overloading them with homework is not associated with higher grades". So if the homework overwhelming students, it would lost the cognitive valued.
As a student for the past 17 years myself, I spent too much time on homework (Since I was in elementary school, I spent two or more hours on my homework, and in high school the assignments took me more than four hours), so as the future teacher, I hope I could change the situation and make the homework valuable, so I think up this compelling question “How can I create valued assignments for middle school students?” based on the Cooper’s research, one hour is the best time for middle school students, and normally, junior high school students have six to nine subjects, so how to balance the homework time with subjects need to be further studied.