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.
In the survey, the importance of daily and non-daily homework has been checked. The researchers have concluded that high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week. Their conclusion had been more valid if they would have considered more areas and schools, individuals’ performance and the feedback from parents and students. The results are not cogent.
This survey only has been performed in two areas and also it has been limited to high school math and science teachers. The samples of the study are very limited and are not enough for the conclusion. There are some questions that must be answered. For example, whether all teachers in different fields in Sanlee assign daily homework, what about Marlee, all teachers only report assigning homework no more than two or three days per week. For improvement of results, more teachers with different backgrounds must be considered.
Also, it is not valid that the results from the two regions have overshadowed other regions. The survey should be done in different areas and according to the average performance of students should be decided whether or not daily homework is necessary for students.
Additionally, in this survey, the overall score has been checked while to increase the validation of results, researchers had to consider individual scores. They also did not check the standard deviation of the scores. The question is whether the differences between the scores of the students in Marlee also are low or not. It is true that the overall score in Marlee students is better than their counterparts in Slanee, but if the standard deviation of grades in Slanee is less than Marlee, we may also be able to conclude that the performance of Slanee students has been better, so teachers should assign daily homework.
In addition to these, the survey had had better results if the feedback from parents and students would have been considered. Also, there is no evidence to ensure that students spend extra time concentrating on individual assignments. How many students really study in their extra time when they do not have homework?
In conclusion, the results of the survey are not enough and persuasive and different more factors should be checked.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: had considered
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Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: had
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, really, so, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 58.6224719101 61% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 2235.4752809 84% => OK
No of words: 366.0 442.535393258 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10928961749 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68056041949 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 215.323595506 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.437158469945 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 563.4 704.065955056 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.4770842065 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4210526316 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2631578947 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.73684210526 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234529372857 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0660933821484 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0759718422446 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114476672882 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0840079276708 0.0667264976115 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 100.480337079 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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