The data from a survey of high school math and science teachers show that in the district of Sanlee many of these teachers reported assigning daily homework, whereas in the district of Marlee, most science and math teachers reported assigning homework no more than two or three days per week. Despite receiving less frequent homework assignments, Marlee students earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are students in Sanlee. These results call into question the usefulness of frequent homework assignments. Most likely the Marlee students have more time to concentrate on individual assignments than do the Sanlee students who have homework every day. Therefore teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
The argument presented regards frequency of homework and makes various deductions based on it. But the information provided is incomplete and the underlying assumptions are not too precise as well. To conclude the usefulness of the homework various other aspects of the homework are to be also considered. For instance in the state of Marlee, science and maths assignments are given twice or three times a week but it doesn't take into account the amount of homework given with comparison to Sanlee. If Sanlee gives homework in each subject about half an hour each daily and if Marlee gives homework of about two hours in each subject. Then, the conclusion drawn from the argument becomes absurd. If amount and intensity are also provided then only proper comparison of the suitability of homework frequency can be made.
In addition, the earning of better grades and not repeating a school don't only depend on the efficacy of the homeworks Various other factors are to be taken into account like:- the students learning wants, the teaching efficiency, the question papers relative difficulty, intelligence of the students and so on. Better grades are the function of all the aforementioned characters and more . So, without going for harsh conclusion based on only frequency of homeworks , survey should have based on all the hollistic factors regarding students grades.
To continue, the reliability of the data regarding the survey as the high schools would like to come off good and lure students to their schools as they dont give regular homeworks which are not liked by the students might also be affecting the conclusion . The number of high school surveys done in both the districts, amount of maths and science teachers asked, number of students in each high school where the survey was done should also ne taken into account. For example:- if comparison is made between the high schools with vast number of student difference , then the conclusion can be easily flawed.
Additionally, the time the students use instead of doing home work also has a cursory assumptions that they will indulge in individual assignments . What if the students are not practicing in the leisure time and playing or indulging in social networks and so on. The other overlying assumption is the homework being completed by the students. You can give as much homework you want if the students are not completing it and are copying it from one or two students of the high school. That doesn't help you better your grades . It could have been the situation of Sanlee school . Rather than focusing on the frequency of the homework the completion of the homework would have helped us to go to a better conclusion.
In conclusion, the conclusion questioning the dearth of homework will increase the better grades and not repeating a year is far from conclusive to follow to the point. The necessary assumptions like:- completion of homework, efficiency of math teachers, intelligence and learning attitude of the students, the amount of high schools surveyed, the number of students in then etc are all to be put into considerations before being able to make a reliable recommendations and a valid suggestion.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 531 350
No. of Characters: 2606 1500
No. of Different Words: 233 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.8 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.908 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.726 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 146 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 113 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.136 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.367 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.309 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.509 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...iven twice or three times a week but it doesnt take into account the amount of homewor...
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...etter grades and not repeating a school dont only depend on the efficacy of the home...
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...l the aforementioned characters and more . So, without going for harsh conclusion ...
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...ion based on only frequency of homeworks , survey should have based on all the hol...
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... To continue, the reliability of the data regarding the survey as the high sc...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... lure students to their schools as they dont give regular homeworks which are not li...
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...y will indulge in individual assignments . What if the students are not practicing...
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...r two students of the high school. That doesnt help you better your grades . It could ...
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... That doesnt help you better your grades . It could have been the situation of San...
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...have been the situation of Sanlee school . Rather than focusing on the frequency o...
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...lped us to go to a better conclusion. In conclusion, the conclusion questionin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, regarding, so, then, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 82.0 55.5748502994 148% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2679.0 2260.96107784 118% => OK
No of words: 528.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07386363636 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79356345386 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79184768315 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452651515152 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 819.0 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.5122986132 57.8364921388 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.772727273 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.31818181818 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21456498397 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611812073753 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481911667162 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12184911529 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468796802249 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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