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Learning aspirations reflect personality dispositions and pupils’ ability to achieve certain goals; they are the pupil’s ideas about these goals at school formed by the pupil’s self-concept and previous successes or failures. In pupils of younger school age, aspirations are strongly determined by parenting and parents’ attitudes to the child’s school career. In the operational phase, a socio-psychological approach was chosen, according to which aspirations are not only the conscious and rational disposition of a p...

The aim of the presented paper is to illuminate the current situation regarding assigning homework at secondary schools in the Czech Republic and to ascertain secondary school students’ attitudes to economics subjects homework. The importance of homework given from Economics as a subject at the selected secondary schools is discussed using the results from questionnaires completed by secondary school pupils (N=239) in the South Moravian region in the Czech Republic. The data analysis of the pilot study of 15 items...