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.
In this argument, the author concludes that teachers should assign homework no more than twice a week as teachers of Marlee do. In order to justify the conclusion, the arguer provides a survey showing the way that homework is assigned combined with performance of students in Sanlee and Marlee districts. At first glance, the author’s argument appears to be somewhat convincing,
but further reflection reveals that specific evidences are needed before we can substantiate the argument.
A foremost evidence required to evaluate this recommendation is that the quantity of homework given by the teacher. The survey shows merely how many days per week the teachers assign homework, but lack the information of the loading of homework given at a time. It is much likely that teachers in Marlee district give out more homework at a time and allow students to finish them in a couple of days. That is to say, it is possible that the total amount of homework given in two districts are roughly identical. If that is the case, limiting the number of day to assign homework can have little effect on student performance since there in fact are other possible factors that differentiate the students in the two high schools.
Additionally, it is unsound to assume that students in Marlee district are doing better jobs than ones in Sanlee district merely judging them by their grades. It is necessary to look into the grading system in both schools, since we cannot obviate the possibility that high schools in Marlee are generally giving students higher grades. An evidence that provide a fair comparison of student performance in two school is favorable to evaluate the argument. The conclusion made by author would be strengthened if evidence shows that students in Marlee do have better academic performance.
Finally, the argument relies on the questionable assumption that the Marlee students likely have more time to concentrate on individual assignments than do the Sanlee students who have homework every day. This assumption oversimplifies that more homework means less free time to study and leads to a lower grade. To properly evaluate the proposal of reducing homework, we need to know how students spend their time learning at home. That is to say, spending less time on homework does not necessary mean that student will spend more time of studying. In fact, it is possible that students are learning through the process of doing homework and actually need more homework to practice. The arguer’s recommendation would be hardly convincing to people if the evidence shows that homework is the only time students spend studying.
In sum, the aforementioned evidence is needed in order to evaluate the author’s conclusion. Before the required information are given, one cannot easily verdict whether the author’s recommendation is beneficial to the students.
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 465 350
No. of Characters: 2358 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.644 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.071 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.761 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 189 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 140 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 115 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.29 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.345 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.564 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.147 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 380, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ument appears to be somewhat convincing, but further reflection reveals that spec...
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Line 6, column 99, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...lee district are doing better jobs than ones in Sanlee district merely judging them ...
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Line 8, column 741, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'peopling'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'convince' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: peopling
...commendation would be hardly convincing to people if the evidence shows that homework is ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, if, look, so, then, in fact, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2421.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 465.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2064516129 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83964956744 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447311827957 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 757.8 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.6579240002 57.8364921388 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 121.05 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234133879617 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0865399662076 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0742734349523 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121327124334 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108698978838 0.0628817314937 173% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
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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