How Much Homework Is Enough? Depends Who You Ask.
In terms of time spent in doing homework, the findings indicated that children spent 1.92 hours daily on their school homework, and in terms of communicating with their children's school teachers.
Later in the night, they will spend another two hours to do homework. So all in all, most kids in China spend 77 hours a week studying — a revelation that would put lawyers and investment.
While the average time spent on reading, writing and literature decreases from 26% to 16%, the teaching of modern foreign languages increases from 6% to 14%. Similarly, most countries dedicate at least twice more time to maths than to science in primary education but by lower.
The mountain of homework costs Chinese teens 10,080 hours on average before the age of 18, equaling the time of 4,032 concerts or 7,000 soccer matches, according to the report, which was conducted.
Table 1. Time spent in primary activities and percent of the civilian population engaging in each activity, averages per day by sex, 2018 annual averages; Activity Average hours per day, civilian population Average percent engaged in the activity per day Average hours per day for persons who engaged in the activity; Total Men Women Total Men.
In higher education, a well-established rule of thumb holds that students should devote two hours of study time for every hour of class time. Assuming a full-time load of fifteen credit hours, students adhering to this standard should spend thirty hours per week studying.
In fact, researchers found the perfect amount of time per day for homework was just one hour.