While there may indeed be a significant link between student success and homework, more information is clearly needed to make such a bold claim. The statement above is rife with pivotal assumptions and in order to make a stronger argument, several questions relating to the collected data will need to be addressed.
The argument wrongly assumes that two school student populations are identical, and therefore, able to be accurately compared. It would substantially weaken the argument to find that Marlee district includes the highest earning citizens of the surrounding area. Are there perhaps other supplementary materials or learnings available to these students that can account for their superior grades? For example, parents of the Marlee district may be able to provide high quality private tutoring services for their children. Along similar circumstances, the opposite may be an important factor to take into consideration. We would benefit to know more about Sanlee district as well. Sanlee may consist of a historically indigent population with fewer outside-of-school learning opportunities available. Despite poor student performance, guardians may not be able to afford tutoring. Moreover, perhaps these tutoring and similar services are not readily available in the area.
Providing more information concerning the actual details of the assigned homework can either hinder or bolster the argument. We understand the frequency difference in the homework assignments, but there is nothing provided that addresses the content of the homework. Take into consideration the idea that although Marlee district sends home a fewer number of assignments, they may be more difficult in nature, requiring increased time and effort on the student's part. Additionally, the survey only questions science and math teachers. A typical student may take four even five additional high school classes simultaneously. Understanding the total work load taken home every day can give a more clear picture of how much time is spent concentrating on homework in its entirety. Marlee district may send home less science and math homework, but maybe there is a greater number of literature and history assignments sent home on a daily basis. Addressing these assignments and their link to success in the related courses would surely help sway the arguments position.
Conclusively, there may very well be a link between homework and academic performance. It is easy to see how less time focusing on daily mundane assignments can offer more time to
concentrate on important individual assignments further leading to success. However, to support this idea more objective information is needed on a larger scale. For starters, a broader survey of teachers representing all student demographic backgrounds, and more inclusive data collections relating to the actual amount of work taken home would be tremendously beneficial.
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 445 350
No. of Characters: 2425 1500
No. of Different Words: 237 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.593 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.449 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.978 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 163 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 113 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.348 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.578 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.609 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.283 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.444 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.061 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 870, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to tutor'.
Suggestion: to tutor
...ce, guardians may not be able to afford tutoring. Moreover, perhaps these tutoring and s...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 180, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ndane assignments can offer more time to concentrate on important individual assi...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, therefore, well, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2482.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 445.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57752808989 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07459258368 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54606741573 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 783.0 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.7380838983 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.913043478 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.347826087 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.95652173913 5.70786347227 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198528134823 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0559737923672 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0504147290613 0.0701772020484 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0984861778412 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0605830900021 0.0628817314937 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 48.3550499002 73% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.5979740519 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 98.500998004 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.