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Children are more likely to do their homework if they see it as an investment, not a chore, according to new research at the University of Michigan.
Most children in the United States say they expect to go to college, but there is frequently a gap between students’ goals and their current behavior, according to the study conducted by U-M graduate student Mesmin Destin and Daphna Oyserman, a psychologist at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR), School of Social Work, and Department of Psychology. The gap can be especially wide among low-income and African American students, the study says.
The study is published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
The researchers conducted two studies among middle-school children in the Detroit area. In the first study, they asked 266 students about the jobs they saw themselves having as adults. “Think about yourself as an adult, what job do you think you’ll have? What will you be doing in 10 years?”
Nine out of 10 children expected to attend at least a two-year college, but only 46 percent saw themselves as having an education-dependent adult identity. Those who did invested more time in homework and got better grades over the course of the school year.
Source: Science Daily
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