While the Department of Education in the state of Attra suggests that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, we recommend that all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The argument states that the department of education in attra conforms to assigning homework to highschool students but, before they conclude that pupil be assigned with homework twice a week we need to carefully assess some questions which may question the credibility of the claim.
Firstly, How recent is the survey? Will a survey from the state be the only factor in determining the assignment of homework? It might be a factor but there are perhaps a lot more facts which need to be thoroughly understood. The recency of the survey also plays quite a role in making decisions. Let’s take a case where the “recent” according to the survey is more than 2 years, this case challenges the point that the problems which were posed at the time still exist today.
Secondly, Are states of Sanlee and Marlee comparable and if they are then are they analogous to Attra?. Education in states may vary based on the circumstances and the potential of individuals in it. So, when the evidence of the percent of teachers reporting assignment of homework is given it might not be sufficient to compare them. Attra might have students who are capable enough to not require homework and are able to grasp information quickly.
Thirdly, Is homework the only parameter for getting better grades?. Past of an individual and the level of cognizance he has possessed over a period of time might indicate the grades of a student too and if let’s say Clara has had good fundamental knowledge of triangles and quadrilaterals than Pronto who is so-so in it and they both study in the same class, then Clara might be able perform better even if she didn’t do it than Pronto who even after he has done the said homework was not competent enough to pull off in the test where polygons and triangles were asked.
If further details regarding the argument were given and the above questions were answered, the argument may stand a chance else it has flawed assertions which are against the recommendation of the Education department
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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: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 347 350
No. of Characters: 1632 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.316 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.703 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.614 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 105 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.786 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 22.198 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.786 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.301 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 64, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the survey? Will a survey from the state be the only factor in determining the as...
^^
Line 5, column 202, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[4]
Message: “So , when” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...and the potential of individuals in it. So, when the evidence of the percent of teachers...
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Line 7, column 143, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...l of cognizance he has possessed over a period of time might indicate the grades of a student ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 385, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the same class, then Clara might be able perform better even if she didn’t do it ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1685.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 346.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86994219653 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68776337692 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.537572254335 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 528.3 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 121.223252403 57.8364921388 210% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 129.615384615 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6153846154 23.324526521 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38461538462 5.70786347227 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => 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: 0.205808605647 0.218282227539 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0803611458612 0.0743258471296 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585887247764 0.0701772020484 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117079706989 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0632890789632 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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