TEACHERS' INSTRUCTIONS AS A FACTOR FOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF HOMEWORK.

Throughout the school practices, homework has always presented an integral part of the lesson. Usually at the beginning of a lesson, teachers check and clarify the unclear homework, while at the end of the lesson they assign the homework related to the finished lesson. The goals of homework are many and diverse, they help to better memorise the newly acquired material, reinforce, and expand the acquired knowledge and skills. The purpose of this paper is to find out the relationship between the period when teachers give instructions related to the completion of the homework and the time necessary to clarify uncompleted, respectively unclear, homework. Our assumption was that: There is a significant difference between the time spent for homework instructions and the successful completion of the homework. This research included thirty-six primary education teachers. The research showed that teachers devote little time to the instructions when assigning homework (64% of respondents spend less than 10 minutes) and as a result students have uncertainty in completing them (61% of respondents spend more than 10 minutes) to clarify unclear tasks to students). The statistical significance in the comparison of this pair of variables was p=.010, which proves the set hypothesis. Based on the results of the research, we conclude that if teachers were to give more instructions related the tasks that should be completed by students at home, then the tasks/homework would be completed with a greater success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]