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 which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
According to the information from only two district the author the passage conclude that for better result and outcome high school, should assign less homework to their students.The argument distorts the view of the situation by manipulating facts and provides dubious piece of evidence.However, scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support and the argument it provides to validate the conclusion is flawed.let me enumarate them one by one.
First of all, the memorandum above unsubstantially assumes that only from the statistics of the math and science deparetment it will also be applicable for all depaertment which is merely a suppotion without solid ground.For example, may be science and math related cources need less practice than any other subject. It may also be plausible that for all the cources it doesn't need same amount of practice to get a fruitful result.If these is the fact that influence the result of an exam than the conclusion which is presented might be an abortive idea.
Furthermore, the argument superficially claims that the analogous two districts have equivalent merit of their students.There is no evidence of the quality of the students of the two districts.The grade of any exam doesn't soley depends on quantity of the homework but also the average of merit of their students.If the students of the marlee has better intellectual, cognitive ability because it is one of the renowed educational district in the country thats why people from all around the country comes here with having lost of comepetition. so as they are superier in merit it can also be possible for them to score more without myriad of homework .
Finally,author cites only about the asigning homework without giving any datya about the qualiyty and quantitu of it.If may also be plausible that sanlee's faculty may provide homework daily without evaluating the quality of it.it can also be inevitable that may be they provide homework daily but quantity of it was not so rife.on the other hand, marlee's faculty may provide homework with better quality and the amount can also be high as they provide it only two times a week.If the argumet can provides evidence about the meritious value of the students of the two districts than then it would have been more convincing for the reader.
In conclusion,if the author takes into the fallacies mention above then he/she may be able top make a well informed dfecision about the frerquency of the homework in a week and bolsters the arguemt with lucid concete evidence.
Comments
e-rater score 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: 8 15
No. of Words: 434 350
No. of Characters: 2098 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.564 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.834 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.588 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 151 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 54.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.004 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.454 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.787 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.166 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, well, for example, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2144.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 420.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10476190476 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82014872133 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485714285714 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 687.6 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 7.0 19.7664670659 35% => 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: 60.0 22.8473053892 263% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 177.51757602 57.8364921388 307% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 306.285714286 119.503703932 256% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 60.0 23.324526521 257% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 19.0 5.70786347227 333% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 5.25449101796 362% => Less language errors wanted.
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: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139462741177 0.218282227539 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0639681216737 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0337329442858 0.0701772020484 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0745784139058 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0243757763674 0.0628817314937 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 32.6 14.3799401198 227% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: 10.58 48.3550499002 22% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 26.7 12.197005988 219% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.19 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.64 8.32208582834 128% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 29.5 12.3882235529 238% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 26.0 11.1389221557 233% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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