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.
According to the written prompt, Marlee students are doing better in the final examination than the Sanlee students because of fewer assignments. The writer recommends to assign fewer homework to other schools to obtain better grades, less makeovers and extended time to study. Although the recommendation seems appealing at a first glance, it is riffed with many logical fallacies that need to be validated with suitable evidences. Without proper evidence, the conclusion of the author remains unwarranted and can't be accepted.
First, each school needs to compare the curriculum and contents of their courses and then reach to their decision. That's say, we need to have the evidence that the curriculum of Manley school is followed by other schools as well. It may be possible that Marlee school is a business school it does not offer math or science courses. Since math or science courses are complicated, Sanlee school assigned frequent home tasks to make the students competent for the final exam which is not required for Sanlee students. Perhaps, previously Sanlee students offered less assignments for math and science courses and that's why students did not get good grades in those courses. If any of these above points becomes true, the argument as a whole will not hold any water. Therefore, the author need to provide evidence about the similarity of the contents of other schools to justify their decisions.
Secondly, we need clear evidence about the assessment strategy and quality of the students of both schools. It may be possible that despite the good number of grades or fewer F grades, Sanlee students are way much better than the Manlee schools. It may be obtained from the academic records that significant percentage of Sanlee schools are being accepted in well reputed colleges compared to Manlee colleges. Perhaps the teachers of the Marlee school are lenient to the students. It is also possible that talented students prefer Sanlee than Manlee because of the competitive and rigorous course structure. If any of the aforementioned circumstances comes to light, the recommendation of the author will be seriously weakened. Hence, the author needs to cite the evidence regarding the assessment and quality of students from both school.
Last but not the least, it needs proof that Marlee students are utilizing their left over times for productive lessons. There may be some alternative explanations as well. Perhaps, the students of Manlee students use their free times to gossip or play games. It is also possible that Manlee students actually study less because of less assignments and more flexibility. In contrast, it may be possible that Sanlee students cover all the relevant topics with the help of the assignments and they don't need separate time to study again. If any of the preceding issues is true, the conclusion of the writer becomes invalid. Thus, the writer should provide specific evidence perhaps in the form of survey responses to justify that lesser amount of assignments actually help the Manlee students to concentrate more on studies.
To summarize, the author must provide evidences to these three key points that are discussed in this writing. Otherwise, it will be a logical fallacy to vie with the opinion follow the claim of the writer.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 537 350
No. of Characters: 2708 1500
No. of Different Words: 237 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.814 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.043 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.583 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 219 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 155 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.889 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.181 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.704 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.301 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.474 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 158, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'recommends assigning'.
Suggestion: recommends assigning
...ecause of fewer assignments. The writer recommends to assign fewer homework to other schools to obta...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 236, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun makeovers is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... other schools to obtain better grades, less makeovers and extended time to study. ...
^^^^
Line 1, column 513, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...n of the author remains unwarranted and cant be accepted. First, each school need...
^^^^
Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: That's
...urses and then reach to their decision. Thats say, we need to have the evidence that ...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 560, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun assignments is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...aps, previously Sanlee students offered less assignments for math and science course...
^^^^
Line 3, column 610, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...nments for math and science courses and thats why students did not get good grades in...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 638, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'circumstances'' or 'circumstance's'?
Suggestion: circumstances'; circumstance's
...structure. If any of the aforementioned circumstances comes to light, the recommendation of t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 332, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun assignments is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...students actually study less because of less assignments and more flexibility. In co...
^^^^
Line 7, column 496, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...th the help of the assignments and they dont need separate time to study again. If a...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2768.0 2260.96107784 122% => OK
No of words: 536.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16417910448 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65431511468 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 204.123752495 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455223880597 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 844.2 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.3881031522 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.518518519 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8518518519 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.20758483034 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.151849670437 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0444758625973 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0523734888214 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0792211357423 0.128457276422 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0509781441787 0.0628817314937 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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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