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. Write a response in terms of assumptions.
The given argument of the author that the teachers of the Sanlee were reported to give more homework per week as compared to teachers of Marlee state who were reported to give less homework and thus, resulted in poor performance of the students of Sanlee state in academics. However, students of Marlee state have performed better and have not repeated a year is based on the assumptions and does not give answers to some of the questions and therefore, is invalid and inconsistent.
The mere assumption that students of Marlee state have got good grades as compared to students of the state Sanlee as teachers of Marlee have been reported to give less homework is unfair. It might be the case that teaching methodology adopted by teachers of Marlee states is more effective as compared to teaching methodologies adopted by teachers of Sanlee state which have led to better grades and fewer students have been found to repeat a year. Moreover, the author of the argument has not specified the number of questions given per homework. The frequency of the homework is not in correlation to the quality of the homework. It might be the case that students of Marlee state have been getting more difficult and quality questions in their assignments which require more time as compared to questions given to students of Sanlee state. Therefore, It would be unfair to compare the quantity of homework of the two states and thereby, the academic performance of the students of two states. The academic performance of the students of two states is incommensurable to quantity of homework given.
The mere assumption that consequences of the present statistics are not in co-relation with the with the past before adopting the policy of giving less homework or more homework is unfair. There is no any statistics evidence. The consequences of present statistics of the two states has not been compared with the past. The author has not specified what was the academic status of the students of two states before adopting the present policy of giving more homework per week or less homework per week. Therefore, it would be unfair to compare the performance of the students of two states based on the present statistics. It might be the case that students of Marlee states have been bright and hardworking as compared to students of Sanlee state in past case scenarios as well.
The mere assumption that 86 percent of the teachers of Sanlee have been reported to give more homework per week which has led to bad grades of students is unfair. The economic condition of the two states has not been taken into account for providing teachers at school. There can be a low teacher-student ratio which might have overburdened teachers and they might not have got time to ensure full attention to every student which resulted in low grades of students of Sanlee state.
The assumption that the quantity of homework results in better grades of students is unfair. The academic performance of the student does not depend on the amount of the homework assigned to them. It depends on many factors. It depends on the amount of effort put by an individual. It is also dependent on the keen interest of students in studies. The academic environment also plays a key role. The quantity of homework given has no correlation with respect to the academic performance of students. The socio-economic background, environmental conditions of the students of two states has not been taken into account. There are various factors contributing to the academic performance of the students which must be looked upon before comparison.
One or more facts in the argument are based on mere assumptions. The author ‘s argument is based on unjustifiable assumptions that lack certain evidence. The author’s recommendation of giving less homework is plausible. Therefore, the above claim is untenable on the basis of the above-mentioned assumptions.
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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 31 15
No. of Words: 653 350
No. of Characters: 3210 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.055 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.916 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.794 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 241 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 179 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 149 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.065 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.057 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.323 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.524 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.151 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...work per week as compared to teachers of Marlee state who were reported to give l...
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...ssumptions and does not give answers to some of the questions and therefore, is invalid and...
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...t. The mere assumption that students of Marlee state have got good grades as com...
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...t consequences of the present statistics are not in co-relation with the with the...
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...rk or more homework is unfair. There is no any statistics evidence The consequenc...
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...statistics evidence The consequences of present statistics of the two states has...
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...ow grades of students of Sanlee state. The assumption that the quantity of home...
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... amount of effort put by an individual. It is also dependent on the keen interest ...
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... the academic performance of students. The socio-economic background, environmenta...
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...g less homework is plausible. Therefore, the above claim is untenable on the basi...
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... of the above-mentioned assumptions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 116.0 55.5748502994 209% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3278.0 2260.96107784 145% => OK
No of words: 653.0 441.139720559 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01990811639 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.05508305356 4.56307096286 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85290607094 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.303215926493 0.468620217663 65% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1038.6 705.55239521 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 19.0 8.76447105788 217% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 19.7664670659 152% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.990689265 57.8364921388 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.266666667 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7666666667 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73333333333 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.160772533253 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0559706405137 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566514990556 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.098042197343 0.128457276422 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0563464156118 0.0628817314937 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.0 8.32208582834 84% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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