BACKGROUND Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) usually involves homework, the completion of which is a known predictor of a positive outcome. The aim of the present study was to examine the session-by-session relationships between enthusiasm to complete the homework and the improvement of psychological distress in depressed people through the course of therapy. METHODS Working people with subt...

This study investigated the extent to which parental homework completion during behavioral parent training (BPT) for children with or at risk for developmental delay contributed to parenting and child outcomes. Parents of 48 children (Mage=44.17 months, SD=14.29; 73% male; 72% White) with developmental delay (IQ<75) or at risk for developmental delay (due to premature birth) with co-occurring c...

schooling were as universally endorsed as homework. Educators, parents, and policymakers of all political and pedagogical stripes insisted that homework is good and more is better—a view that was promoted most visibly in A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) and What Works (U.S. Department of Education, 1986).1 Indeed, never in the history of American education...

In a recent study, Kontur, de La Harpe, and Terry [1] carried out an important study examining the differential benefits of doing more homework on different levels of students. Their surprising results, which suggest that doing homework does not benefit lower aptitude physics students, prompted us to examine the correlation between homework and exam grades in our own courses. In contrast to the...

To the Editor: Our prior research1 demonstrated that patient adherence to homework during cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) strongly predicts acute outcome for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). To examine whether homework adherence also predicts outcome at 6-month followup, we capitalized on data from a clinical trial2 that provided CBT consisting of exposure and ritual preven...

This paper presents a new approach to the teaching of undergraduate mathematics in which the students are allowed a free access to the complete solutions manual. Our method consists in assigning a very substantial amount of homework problems and allowing the students to consult with the solutions manual while doing it. Our philosophy is that the purpose of the homework is not to test the studen...