Despite the relationship between homework behaviors and students’ academic achievement, assigning more homework does not lead to better homework performance when teachers do not consider other homework characteristics, specifically the purpose for each homework task. Lee and Pruitt proposed a description of homework assignment purposes to increase the benefits of homework tasks. These authors described four types of instructional homework purposes: practice (i.e., practicing the material that is covered in class to master skills), preparation (i.e., preparing the next lesson), extension (i.e., transferring prior learning to new situations) and creative (i.e., integrating several competencies into one task as a research project)