Advantaged students spend around 1.6 hours more a week doing homework than their disadvantaged peers, an OECD analysis has shown.
Across the countries within the OECD, 15-year-old students report spending almost five hours a week doing homework – one hour less than the average in 2003.
The most time spent on homework is by students in Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia and Singapore, where the average is more than seven hours a week, and in Shanghai, where the average reaches 14 hours each week.
However, in Finland and Korea, students spend less than three hours a week doing homework.
The analysis is included in the latest Pisa in Focus publication from the OECD and reveals a varying gap between poor students and their wealthier peers across all countries when it comes to homework.
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