ATTITUDE TOWARDS HOME WORK AMONG TEACHERS AT SECONDARY LEVEL IN COIMBATORE DISTRICT

Homework is defined as a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside the class. Common homework assignments may include a quantity or period of reading to be performed, writing or typing to be completed, problems to be solved, a school project to be built (such as a diorama or display), or other skills to be practiced. The study aimed to examine the attitude towards home work among teachers at secondary levels. The investigator adopted survey method to study the attitude towards home work among teachers at secondary levels. For this study a sample of 300 secondary level teachers from five Govt and Private schools which are situated in and around Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu were selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings reveal that is inferred that there is a difference in the level of attitude towards homework among school teachers at secondary level.


Introduction
Homework is defined as a set of tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside the class. Common homework assignments may include a quantity or period of reading to be performed, writing or typing to be completed, problems to be solved, a school project to be built (such as a diorama or display), or other skills to be practiced. Almost every teacher assigns homework to students. Teachers, parents as well as students believe that this activity -which should be done in non-school hours-enhances achievement. The amount of time students spend doing homework has been the focus of national surveys and international comparisons. According to Kackar  practices, values, and behavior. Kackar et al. (2011) argued that time spent doing homework is related to academic success (Schmitz & Skinner, 1993). However, the empirical evidence of such association is not consistent (Cooper, Lindsay, Nye, & Greathouse, 1998). The relation between school liking (or belonging or connectedness) and academic attainment is an important aspect of motivation. Belonging or connectedness to school has been perceived to be associated with pupil wellbeing and academic achievement. As positive attitudes toward homework are part of the sense of belonging to school, researchers have found very small correlation between attitudes homework and time spent on homework (Cooper et al., 1998).

HYPOTHESIS: 1
There will be a difference in the level of attitude towards homework among school teachers at secondary level.

HYPOTHESIS: 2
There will be a significant mean score difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on gender. TOTAL 300 The Table 2 shows that mean score difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on gender. The calculated t-value is statistically not significant at 0.05 levels and hence, the hypothesis 2 is rejected. It can be concluded that there is no significant difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on gender.

HYPOTHESIS: 3
There will be a significant mean score difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on medium of instruction. TOTAL 300 The Table 3 shows that mean score difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on medium of instruction. The calculated t-value is statistically significant at 0.05 levels and hence, the hypothesis 3 is accepted. It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on medium of instruction.

Conclusion
The findings reveal that totally 24% of the teachers at secondary level belong to low level of attitude towards home work, 50.33% of the teachers at secondary level belong to moderate level of attitude towards home work, and 25.66% of the teachers at secondary level belong to high level of attitude towards home work. There is no significant mean score difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on gender. It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in attitude towards homework among secondary level teachers based on medium of instruction. English medium students have better mean value than Tamil medium students. Thereby medium have strong influence in attitude towards home work.