Is homework an effective instrument to gain knowledge?
It is widely acknowledged that homework assignment is an essential part of learning in most countries around the world. Nevertheless, there is a perennial dispute over whether homework has a significant educational value. This is a complex issue and this writing will ventilate some rationales that assignments at home are beneficial for students if teachers and parents know how to use it appropriately.
The negative effects that homework can exert on students are definite. To commence with, children are deprived of time for extracurricular activities and family. The key argument in support of this view is that students have to brace themselves for an accumulating mount of homework after school hours. Take candidates for the standardized tests such as Grade A or GCSE as a prime exemplar. According to the University of Phoenix, they have to spend an average of 3.5 hours daily to finish their homework assignments. The implication for this is that the time left for family affection and other leisure activities could be at a greater shortage. In addition to this, excessive piles of homework are deemed to harm children’s both physical and mental well-being. To exemplify, depression, sleep deprivation and stomach problems are common problems that students encounter due to school pressure, and which leads to other severe problems including autism or the commitment suicide.
On the other hand, although the aforementioned situations indeed look bleak, I am convinced that homework, if appropriately utilized, do play an important role in improving children’s academic performance. Tasks assigned during non-school hours can not only reinforce the concepts that they have learned but also develop a concrete understanding about the subject. Furthermore, time-management, using reference materials, critical thinking are the requisite skills that students could acquire from doing homework. For instance, during self-study period, if students encounter any difficulties, they will contrive to use dictionaries, technology assistants to facilitate their learning process.
Indeed, teachers have realized the extent to which their students were affected by excessive homework assignments. To rekindle students’ interest in homework, making tasks more pertinent is the key, which means that assignments at home should have a clear academic purpose such as practice, checking for understanding, or applying knowledge or skills. To this end, there are many novel kinds of homework including project’s preparation, picture drawing, the rehearsal for literature drama which have revolutionized the misconception of students about homework. To illustrate, in project-based learning, students do their own research, and then present it back while teachers just scaffold and moderate learning process and this approach allows creativity, teamwork skill to develop. Last but not least, the role of parental involvement is of great importance in fostering children’s learning outcomes. These are the testament to the fact that homework is a contributing factor to students’ academic performance.
In conclusion, although schoolwork is not without downsides namely pressure, sleep deprivation and other health problems. From personal perspective, learners can gain a profound understanding of their subjects by properly assigned and pertinent tasks.
- Some people think that parents have the greatest influence on their child s academic development rather than the teacher To what extent do you agree with this statement 73
- It is generally acknowledged that families are now not as close as they used to be Give possible reasons and your recommendation 89
- Students should pay the full cost of their own university studies rather than have free higher education provided by the state To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement 73
- Some people say that it is the responsibility of individuals to save money for their own care after they retire To what extent do you agree or disagree 93
- Raising oil prices is the best way to tackle traffic congestion To what extent to you agree 84
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 562, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...sconception of students about homework. To illustrate, in project-based learning, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, nevertheless, so, then, well, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.3376753507 216% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2871.0 1615.20841683 178% => OK
No of words: 495.0 315.596192385 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.8 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.20363070211 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21643443338 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 176.041082164 161% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571717171717 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 870.3 506.74238477 172% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.76152304609 252% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6438057246 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.826086957 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5217391304 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.04347826087 7.06120827912 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178299753731 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0531217028497 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0539944623678 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0904262156245 0.151304729494 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.030302512924 0.056905535591 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 13.0946893788 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.36 12.4159519038 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.85 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 162.0 78.4519038076 206% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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