In the 2019/2020 school year, Flatåsen and Stabbursmoen schools were homework-free with two extra school hours a week, while Byåsen and Romulslia schools were homework-free with no change in the timetable.Īll four schools were in Trondheim municipality. The purpose of the project was to improve the knowledge base about attitudes towards, and experiences with homework in primary school – and about the effects of homework.Īlthough the homework-free project had to be scaled back and eventually discontinued due to the COVID pandemic, the researchers made several interesting discoveries. NTNU’s Department of Education and Lifelong Learning was asked to evaluate the experiment. The city council in Trondheim wanted to try out a homework-free project in some of the city’s elementary schools in order to gain experience with a different way of working in schools.

(Photo: Elin Iversen / NTNU) Need more knowledge Per Egil Mjaavatn is a researcher and associate professor affiliated with NTNU.

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