In the given argument, the author recommends teachers in schools not to assign homework to students for more than two days a week, based on data from surveys. However, to validate the author's argument, three important questions must be answered.
First of all, can teachers of high school math and science be representative for all teachers of subjects other than science and math or those who teach other sections of schools rather than high school? It might be possible that due to the nature of subjects like math and science, it is suitable not to burden the students, taking those courses, with everyday homework. The teachers of science and math might follow a system which provides a student with enough time to understand the concepts to the core ideas, before diving into the homework. There is also a possibility that subjects other than science and math, require everyday homework, so as to keep the students in touch with the subject's learning, thus helping efficient learning. If any of these scenarios is true, the argument of the author can be less effective.
Secondly, is the information about trends in the districts of Sarlee and Marlee collected in a scientific and unbiased manner? It might happen that the teachers who reported about their formulae of assigning homework, teach disjoint subjects, which have different requirements in terms of frequency of homework assignment. It might also happen that the number of teachers participating in the surveys from the districts of Sarlee and Marlee are different in number. These kinds of situations might lead to the results being skewed, thus weakening the author's argument.
Last of all, are the test difficulty standards and school policies same for both students in Marlee and Sarlee? The difficulty of tests might be comparatively less for the students in Marlee, thus reducing the chances of failure and increasing the chances of good grades. It might also be possible that the schools in Marlee have a lenient policy in deciding pass or fail for students. They might be lowering the passing criteria so as to portray themselves as a better educational institution. These assumptions if false will as well lead to the weakening of the author's argument.
Hence, it is evident that the argument of the author does not hold water as of now. If the author provides additional information in the following three fronts: opinion of non-high school, non-science and non-math teachers, details about data collection and comparability of the schools in Marlee and Sarlee, we would be in a better position to evaluate the recommendation that the author gives.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 431 350
No. of Characters: 2152 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.556 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.993 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.686 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.944 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.488 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.568 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 185, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... from surveys. However, to validate the authors argument, three important questions mus...
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Line 3, column 647, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ce and math, require everyday homework, so as to keep the students in touch with the sub...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 446, Rule ID: ADJECTIVE_IN_ATTRIBUTE[1]
Message: A more concise phrase may lose no meaning and sound more powerful.
Suggestion: different
... the districts of Sarlee and Marlee are different in number. These kinds of situations might lead t...
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Line 5, column 552, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...esults being skewed, thus weakening the authors argument. Last of all, are the test ...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 431, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
... might be lowering the passing criteria so as to portray themselves as a better educati...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 461, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... criteria so as to portray themselves as a better educational institution. These ...
^^
Line 7, column 566, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ll as well lead to the weakening of the authors argument. Hence, it is evident that ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well, as to, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2208.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 431.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12296983759 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75451865529 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477958236659 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 655.2 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.6617644938 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.666666667 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9444444444 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 5.70786347227 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28839225993 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.083040753013 0.0743258471296 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736522817394 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159092490546 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0640496052855 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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