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 argument speculates that due to the frequent number of assignments the students of Sanlee are not doing well in the examinations. In order to justify this, the assignment given to the students of Marlee has been taken into consideration. But jumping to any conclusion requires validation of the soundness of the claims and this is not present in the statement.
Firstly, the recommendation is based on a survey of the high school math and science teachers about the number of assignments they give to their students. But there is no mention about whether the students properly submit their assignments. It may happen that the students of Sanlee are not attentive to their instructors and do not submit their homeworks regularly. On the other hand, the students of Marlee tend to be more serious than the students of Sanlee. Furthermore, there is no mention about the quality of assignments. Perhaps, the assignments of the Sanlee are not very productive to the learning of the students in comparison to that of the Marlee. Again, another reason can play a role in the better grades of the students of Marlee. Actually, the faculties of Marlee set final questions from their assignments hence students perform well in the exams whereas the faculties of Sanlee tend to be cautious not to set questions from the assignments. Hence without knowing all of these, it will be unappropriate to reach a conclusion.
Furthermore, we cannot compare the grades of students of different districts since there may be many factors. For example, the students of Sanlee may not get proper guidance. Sanlee may locate in a remote place where the educational facilites, faculties and others are not close to that of the Marlee. Again there is no mention about the previous record of these two districts. It may happen that average grades of the students of Sanlee have been lower than that of Manlee for past years. Hence this will be a biased thinking to take into account only the frequency of the assignments in this case.
Not to least, even if we assume that the past records and the teaching as well as the student quality is same in these institutes, there may be other factors behind this sudden degradation of the results. Hence in order to strengthen this claim, a proper survey has to be taken from both the students and the teachers about their perception on what are the factors that need to be addressed. Moreover, the total number of students of Sanlee are much lower than that of Marlee. Hence the number of students getting highest grades will be greater in Marlee. But if we consider percentage, then the scenario may be opposite.
In fine, it will be too irrational to reach a conclusion before addressing all these issues. Hence at this present condition, the hypothesis is totally unwarrented.
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- 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 29
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 476 350
No. of Characters: 2277 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.671 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.784 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.64 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.04 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.302 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.5 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.105 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 961, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... to set questions from the assignments. Hence without knowing all of these, it will b...
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Line 9, column 491, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...wer than that of Manlee for past years. Hence this will be a biased thinking to take ...
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Line 13, column 206, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...this sudden degradation of the results. Hence in order to strengthen this claim, a pr...
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Line 13, column 478, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...lee are much lower than that of Marlee. Hence the number of students getting highest ...
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Line 13, column 507, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'getting the highest'.
Suggestion: getting the highest
...of Marlee. Hence the number of students getting highest grades will be greater in Marlee. But i...
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Line 17, column 94, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ion before addressing all these issues. Hence at this present condition, the hypothes...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, may, moreover, so, then, well, whereas, as to, for example, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 55.5748502994 153% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2344.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 476.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9243697479 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67091256922 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75407908886 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.420168067227 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 711.9 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.8036076836 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.76 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.04 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167114120771 0.218282227539 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0488754204467 0.0743258471296 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0568864425898 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.085300142965 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0566271619775 0.0628817314937 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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