Fordham University

In recent years, efforts to improve student academic outcomes have expanded to incorporate a focus on children's social and emotional well-being and competencies as a path to success in school. The 4Rs+MTP program represents the systematic integration of two distinct programs, Reading Writing, Respect and Resolution (4Rs) and MyTeachingPartner (MTP), that was supported by an IES Goal 2 Development and Innovation award. The 4Rs+MTP program supports teachers in their implementation of the 4Rs ...

Classroom interactions among students and teachers include many activities intended to help students clarify, organize, and remember material. In contrast to classroom learning, learning during homework, for example, may be impoverished. Such learning is generally unsupervised, self-paced, and self-monitored. These characteristics may be disadvantages if the learning activities fail to evoke the effective cognitive events that occur in the supervised learning environment of the classroom....

In this project, the researchers proposed to test specific strategies for structuring homework assignments in ways that would increase the likelihood that students would study productively. From the perspective of cognitive scientists in the early 2000s, the value of homework assignments for improving student learning depends on how the assignments are structured. If the homework can lead a student to have cognitive experiences that common in supervised group-learning environments (such as c...