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.
High school math and science teachers are willing to impose less frequent homework depending on a survey result in the district of Sanlee and Marlee. They have found the evidence that students who are assigned with two or three homework per week, have better results and less repeat as got more time to work on individual assignment than the students who are assigned with daily homework. While it is possible that the author's contention is true and therefore teachers should assign less homeworks ; His or her argument as it stands now, rests on three unstated assumptions that weaken the arguments persuasiveness.
Firstly, the author assumes that the quality of the students and the teachers from the district of Sanlee and Marlee are similar and comparable. For instance, it can be a case that students from the district of Sanlee's are weaker in math and science as well as the teachers are not qualified enough. That can be a reason for failure of students and repeating in the same classes as well as lower grade. And what if Marlee's students are more stronger in math and science for which they are able to finish their homework and their qualified teacher may help them doing the homework more efficiently. That's why the result may not only depending on the frequency of the homework, rather than students and teacher capability to do the homework more effectively and by learning perfectly.
Secondly, the author assumes that only the math and science teachers' survey of the district of Sanlee's and Marlee's are adequate to take a decision on less homework. It maybe a case that for other subjects like history, art, English literature, sociology may have opposite effect like daily assignments can help a student to read and learn everyday. On the other hand, only two district results maybe flawed because of insufficient amount of data to survey. That's why teacher of their school should not immediately take a step to reduce the frequency of the assignments
Thirdly, author assumes that assignment quality of both school are same and exam results are linearly dependent on the frequency of the assignment. What if students form these two schools are assigned with different types of assignment. For example, Sanlee’s teachers provide assignments which are more basic and Marlee’s teachers provide more insightful and practical assignments which make the student’s more enthusiastic about study. Moreover, what if the marlee’s teacher sets up question papers of exams based on the assignments, therefore students are getting common and achieving higher grades. On the contrary, Sanlee’s teachers may set up tougher question papers than the regular assignments. Therefore, they are failing to have good grades.
In conclusion, author should answers all the above questions about his assumptions that weakened his arguments about reducing the frequency of the homework of high school.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 11 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 470 350
No. of Characters: 2391 1500
No. of Different Words: 208 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.656 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.087 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.587 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 190 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 147 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 112 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.737 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.69 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.895 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 420, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...homework. While it is possible that the authors contention is true and therefore teache...
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Line 1, column 484, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun homeworks is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ue and therefore teachers should assign less homeworks ; His or her argument as it s...
^^^^
Line 1, column 591, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
...ee unstated assumptions that weaken the arguments persuasiveness. Firstly, the author ...
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Line 3, column 310, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...hers are not qualified enough. That can be a reason for failure of students and re...
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Line 3, column 437, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'stronger' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: stronger
...grade. And what if Marlees students are more stronger in math and science for which they are ...
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Line 3, column 562, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to do' or 'do'.
Suggestion: to do; do
...d their qualified teacher may help them doing the homework more efficiently. Thats wh...
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Line 3, column 599, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: That's
...em doing the homework more efficiently. Thats why the result may not only depending o...
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Line 5, column 340, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ts can help a student to read and learn everyday. On the other hand, only two district r...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 458, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: That's
... insufficient amount of data to survey. Thats why teacher of their school should not ...
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Line 7, column 359, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e’s teachers provide more insightful and practical assignments which make the stu...
^^
Line 7, column 407, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...cal assignments which make the student’s more enthusiastic about study. Moreover,...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2448.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 470.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2085106383 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69821727922 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.442553191489 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 739.8 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4050878158 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.0 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1111111111 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6111111111 5.70786347227 186% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.39706993207 0.218282227539 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140933209191 0.0743258471296 190% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102951040819 0.0701772020484 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227967364878 0.128457276422 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0906191897743 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => 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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