Name
Evaluating Homework Resubmission as a Strategy to Enhance Student Performance and Engagement
Date & Time
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Description

Homework assignments are an important tool to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes. Well-designed assignments allow students to improve conceptual clarity and apply classroom learning to practical problems. Submission deadlines on homework assignments help improve soft skills such as time management and personal responsibility. However, the difficulty of some assignments may discourage students from submitting. One way to tackle this problem is to allow students to re-submit the homework assignments after the solution is discussed in class. The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of homework resubmission on homework submission percentage, homework score, course grade, and the students’ course evaluations. A homework resubmission policy was implemented in an introductory agricultural economics course beginning in Spring 2021. Under this policy, students who submitted their homework by the original deadline and received a non-zero grade were allowed to resubmit after solutions were discussed in class. Corrected resubmissions earned up to 80% of the points lost on the first attempt. This study analyzed data from 13 semesters, including 5 without resubmission (n=319) and 8 with resubmission (n=512). Key performance metrics analyzed included homework submission percentage, homework scores, and final course grades. Statistical analysis using Student’s t-tests revealed no significant differences in homework submission rates (p=0.08), homework scores (p=0.35), or overall course grades (p=0.77) between semesters with and without resubmission. Additionally, there was no significant impact on student course evaluations. Despite the lack of statistically significant differences, resubmission provided students with a valuable opportunity to improve conceptual understanding and overcome post-COVID performance declines observed in earlier research. The resubmission policy allowed students to achieve performance levels comparable to pre-COVID cohorts, underscoring its potential to support learning. These findings highlight the utility of homework resubmission as a tool that fosters deeper learning without adversely affecting student evaluations or performance metrics.

Location Name
British Columbia/Alberta/Yukon Ballroom
Full Address
The Westin Edmonton
10135 100 St NW
Edmonton AB T5J 0N7
Canada
Session Type
Poster Presentation
Presentation Topic(s)
Scholarship
Number
103
Authors

Shyam Nair, Sam Houston State University
Abbas Aboohamidi, Sam Houston State University
Danhong Chen, Sam Houston State University
Art Wolfskill, Sam Houston State University