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.
The author concludes that Sanlee teachers should assign homework no more than twice a week in a hope to augment their students performances. This conclusion was based on the evidence that Marlee students earned better grades despite receiving less homework compared to Sanlee students. This arguement is flawed in many respects and can be better evaluated if following questions are answered.
Firstly, Is the situation of both the district schools simliar? The author prematurely assumes that since less homework method is working for Marlee students it will also work for Sanlee students which might not be the case. For instance, It might be possible that the Marlee district students are smarter compared to Sanlee students and therefore they don’t require homework to revise their concepts but Sanlee students might require homeowork to revise their concept daily which might help them perform better compared to their own potential.
Secondly, Is there any connection between homework and grades? The Author tries to draw a relationship between amount of homework assigned and grades student score. It might be possible that the grades of student are affected by other factors rather than homework. For instance, Schools in Marlee might have adopted a better method of teaching compared to Sanlee district schools or the resources used by Marlee students such books and notes are better than the one used by Sanlee students. A proper research is needed to identify exactly how is Marlee schools better.
Thirdly, Are the Number of students in both district same? The Author only compares the overall grade of the students but talks little about the number of students in each district. It might be possible that there are fewer students in Marlee district and therefore they have better overall grades. For instance, there might be only 100 students in Marlee district compared to 1000 students in Sanlee district and so it is more likely that Marlee district’s overall grade would be higher than Sanlee district students.
In conclusion, The arguement is based on severall unwarranted assumptions. The arguement can be properly evaluated if author provides answers to above mention questions through proper research and surveys.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 356 350
No. of Characters: 1852 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.344 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.202 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.438 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 168 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.941 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.93 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.6 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 492, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'proper research'.
Suggestion: Proper research
...r than the one used by Sanlee students. A proper research is needed to identify exactly how is Ma...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1897.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 355.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34366197183 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51885805547 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445070422535 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 563.4 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.6749303197 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.588235294 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8823529412 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.29411764706 5.70786347227 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => 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: 0.181306415576 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0714862092631 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0478528039247 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108345275803 0.128457276422 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0577727741947 0.0628817314937 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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