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.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
From the survey conducted the author has concluded that students of Sanlee must be given home twice a week to earn high overall grades. However, the author has made an argument based some assumption that if not substantiated might dramatically weaken the argument.
In the first place, the author claims that based on his survey conducted on the Science and math teachers and concluded that the amount of homework given to the student is less or more based on the these two subjects. However, there is a probability that other subjects might give much more homework to children in Marlee than the students on Sanlee. The author has did not provide the details of number of schools ad number of teachers of schools he interviewed. If he simply consulted two or three school from each district to conclude his survey then this claims that giving less homework in maths and science encouraged the students to get good grades are not warranted.
Scond, the author presumes that the homework given to the students has a direct implication on the overall grades. However, there is a possibility that the amount of homework received by the students of Sanlee everyday is lesser than the amount of homework received by the students of Marlee twice a week. Perhaps the author has only mentioned about two subjects and he did not provide any evidence regarding homework given by other subject teachers. The assumption also depends on the intellectual capacity of the students and it is likely that students from Marlee are more intelligent than students from Sanlee. If any of these above mentioned scenarios hold true then, the author’s contentions that the homework given to the students have a direct connection with the grades they pursue does not hold water.
Thirdly, it is highly doubtful that if students were not given any homework they will concentrate to study for there exams. Perhaps it is likely that students might play games, watch TV or do other activities in the free time. There is another probability that students who get daily homework might read and revise all the concepts given in the homework instead of studying them separately. If it is true that student will concentrate more if they are given homework then the author’s assertions are flawed and his suggestion that less homework allows student to concentrate might be dubious and these recommendation will do a little to convince school board to implement the twice a week homework rule.
In summary, it is possible that the students receiving homework everyday have a direct impact on their grades. However, as it stands, the argument relies on the three unfounded assumptions that renders its conclusion unpersuasive at best and species at worst. Thus, the author has to support his argument with additional evidences
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 465 350
No. of Characters: 2293 1500
No. of Different Words: 192 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.644 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.931 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.579 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 173 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 124 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.441 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.381 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.381 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.13 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 366, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'done'.
Suggestion: done
... the students on Sanlee. The author has did not provide the details of number of sc...
^^^
Line 3, column 210, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...work received by the students of Sanlee everyday is lesser than the amount of homework r...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 596, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this recommendation' or 'these recommendations'?
Suggestion: this recommendation; these recommendations
...ent to concentrate might be dubious and these recommendation will do a little to convince school boa...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 65, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...le that the students receiving homework everyday have a direct impact on their grades. H...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, regarding, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, as to, in summary, it is true, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2336.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 465.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02365591398 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63516249911 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.415053763441 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 717.3 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.6590159506 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.777777778 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8333333333 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.55555555556 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188319720716 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0665257736853 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562592910411 0.0701772020484 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107115470359 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0814864065592 0.0628817314937 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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