As the argument asserts, a report shows that two districts assigned different loads of homework to their students, one on a daily basis and the other about two or three weekly. Surprisingly, the second group with less assignments, showed better function in the exams. The author guesses that the more time dedicated to each homework is the key to this finding and concludes that schools should assign less homework to the students in order to gain better results. This argument is flawed since it shows a lack of evidence which would be elaborated in this essay.
First of all, the quality of the exams taken by two districts is opaque. As this quality must be the same in order to compare the students of two sample groups fairly. For instance, if the exam taken by the Sanlee's students, is harder than the one taken by Marlee's students, the better marks of the Marlee's students might not be a sufficient evidence for their superiority. Therefore, this is suggested that the same exam would be taken from two sample groups in the same conditions.
Furthermore, the authors assumption about the time assigned for doing each homework seems fallacious for several reasons. Firstly, we should acertain if the students do their homework correctly, because if so, it proves that the Sanlee's students did not experience a lack of time in doing their assignments. Secondly, we should estimate the appropriate time needed to do each homework, since if one day is enough for doing each one, then the idea of time mentioned by the author would be meaning less.
Thirdly, this is essential to observe what other activities the students do in their free time, when they are not doing assignments. Since there are some other activities which help enhancing their science and math skills, more than assignments do. And finally, the quality of the homework given to each sample group is important, are the types of the asingnment questions the same or different? are they more practical or not? since the results that the homework have on the student's mindset is much more important that the homeworks themselves.
In conclusion, from my personal stand point, it seems that the data reported from two sample groups should be collected in standard and identical circumstances between two different districts. This data should include the quality of the assignments rather than their quantity, as well as the quality of exams taken to find out the results. on the other hand the time assigned to each homework and their activities during their free time, as well as the correctness of their homework answers, are three other information that might help them a lot in order to make a reasonable conclusion based on the resulted data.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 458 350
No. of Characters: 2214 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.626 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.834 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.524 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.625 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.219 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.544 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.113 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 214, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun assignments is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ly. Surprisingly, the second group with less assignments, showed better function in ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 74, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...exams taken by two districts is opaque. As this quality must be the same in order ...
^^
Line 5, column 18, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...he same conditions. Furthermore, the authors assumption about the time assigned for ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 486, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...a of time mentioned by the author would be meaning less. Thirdly, this is essential to ob...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 182, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to enhance' or 'enhance'.
Suggestion: to enhance; enhance
...re are some other activities which help enhancing their science and math skills, more tha...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 396, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Are
...gnment questions the same or different? are they more practical or not? since the r...
^^^
Line 6, column 428, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Since
...ferent? are they more practical or not? since the results that the homework have on t...
^^^^^
Line 6, column 428, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ferent? are they more practical or not? since the results that the homework have on t...
^^^^^
Line 6, column 476, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...e results that the homework have on the students mindset is much more important that the...
^^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 341, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: On
...of exams taken to find out the results. on the other hand the time assigned to eac...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, well, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2268.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 458.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9519650655 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61803048814 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.427947598253 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 682.2 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 2.70958083832 369% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.0562143654 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.368421053 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1052631579 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.21052631579 5.70786347227 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.169259442256 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0576774809529 0.0743258471296 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0484177906472 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102899240527 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0462076575969 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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