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.
In the given passage, the author claims that in order to improve the overall performance of students and to ensure that students are not forced to repeat a year of school, high school students should not be assigned homework more than twice a week. This conclusion is based on the observation made indicating better overall performance of the Marlee students as compared to the Sanlee students. This argument, however, is flawed and the lack of substantial evidence dramatically decreases its persuasiveness.
First of all, the author never mentions the grade distribution. It is possible that the grade distribution in Sanlee was even, with all of the students receiving above average grades, and on the other hand in Marlee, the grade distribution was uneven, with a few toppers scoring full points and a few failures as well. Additionally, the author does not mention the difference between the overall grades, it is possible that the difference is negligible when compared to the class size of each school. For example, 50 students getting 40 is better than 10 students getting 45. Thus, this lack of data and evidence proves to be a hindrance to the argument that the amount of homework allotted is the cause of grade discrepancy.
Secondly, the author presumes, without evidence, that individual assignments are more beneficial to students than homework. Moreover, the author never mentions the amount of homework assigned to students in each school. Perhaps, the homework assigned to Sanlee students everyday is negligible when compared to the homework assigned to Marlee students, thrice a week. It is also possible, that due to greater workload three days a week, the total time spent on individual assignments by students is about the same for both schools.
Lastly, the author assumes that if the students are assigned less homework, there is no other hindrance that might prevent the students from concentrating and spending more time on individual assignments. Thus, despite the argument seeming reasonable, it is full of flaws and unsubstantiated assumptions. Until concrete evidence is gathered to support the claims made by the author, a comprehensive conclusion and informed decision cannot be made.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 354 350
No. of Characters: 1819 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.338 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.138 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.836 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.333 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.557 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 133, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...e distribution in Sanlee was even, with all of the students receiving above average grades...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 271, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...he homework assigned to Sanlee students everyday is negligible when compared to the home...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, well, for example, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1874.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 354.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29378531073 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92810202698 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480225988701 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 574.2 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.0560926087 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.933333333 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.46666666667 5.70786347227 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132301388173 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0529921585345 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0594937333147 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0913239808839 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0530024102193 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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