“…Eccles and Wigfield (2002), for example, gave an instance of students who often enroll courses they find uninteresting but they need to achieve other desired goals or to obtain approval from teachers and parents. Hence, as homework is a well‐known, century‐old instructional activity with everyday significance for many school aged students around the world (Corno & Xu, 2004; Dettmers et al, 2011; Fan et al, 2017; Fernández‐Alonso et al, 2019; Xu & Corno, 1998), the value of homework from students' viewpoint—their understanding of the purposes for homework—have significant implications for homework motivation, behavior, and academic performance (Rodríguez et al, 2020; Warton, 2001; Xu, in press).…”