NORMAN, Oklahoma: Schools across the world have generally encourage parents to help their children with homework.
And importantly, after we factored in children’s achievement levels, help with homework from parents was no longer associated with lower test scores.While this finding was insightful, we figured that the effect of homework help from parents on student achievement might also be influenced by many other characteristics.
In other words, calls for all parents to stop helping with homework could end up hurting some children.In addition, one common concern is that only affluent and highly educated parents have the time and resources to help their children with homework regularly. We find little evidence to support this presumption.
The effectiveness of homework help also seems to increase when parents foster independent learning behaviours. When helping with homework, parents should avoid trying to control the process and should also resist the temptation to complete assignments for their kids.
It depends on your definition of help - stay beside the kid, wait till they say Eureka - then yes!