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
Grades play a vital role in acquiring an excellent college. These grades can be achieved by sheer hard work as well as smart work and by sincerely following the academic pattern. By just sitting idle and wishing to get good grades won’t help. A student must be in good state of mind, must have the average brain power and can be able to tackle the given situation with less effort to excel in the academics.
The author has surveyed just two districts and concludes to a point on the basics of them. The overall grades not only depends on basic academic knowledge but also depends on other factors like students thinking power and brain power, working environment, family support, teaching faculty etc. For example, if the student is sent to a school where the faculty member themselves does not have much knowledge then there is no point in having the great brain power and family support. Thus, the overall grade depends on all these factors altogether. Even if one of the factors is missing, it might hamper the grades.
Secondly, the author has considered only two subjects of math and science. But in a school, the grades are dependent on other subjects too. For example, if the student has a great practice of math and science and is weak in social studies or any language like English, then also the overall grade will be below average and he/she might need to repeat the year. And again, it is not just how much homework is given but also how the students do it and whether he/she does it sincerely without cheating in the process. Also if the student is a slow learner then he/she might need more work to be done in comparison to others. Thus, the amount of homework should vary according to the individual student.
The conclusion of teachers assigning homework no more than twice a week is based on just two districts. This is not enough to come to a conclusion which matters so much in a student’s life. Moreover, a number of students in both the district may vary and their overall of environment might also vary. Also, the Marlee district might be well developed in comparison to the Sanlee district. Thus, the statistics taken into consideration by the author are not at all sufficient to conclude on how much homework should be given to the students.
As a whole, the teachers of any school should themselves be experienced enough to understand how much homework should be given to the students depending about the student’s capacity, their grasping power and mainly the difficulty level of the subject. If this is followed by all the subjects then the overall grades of the student will definitely increase and there wouldn’t be any issues what so ever.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 472 350
No. of Characters: 2159 1500
No. of Different Words: 212 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.661 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.574 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.411 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.476 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.073 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.289 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.503 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 155, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...cerely without cheating in the process. Also if the student is a slow learner then h...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 13.6137724551 15% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2238.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 467.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79229122056 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57507445359 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453961456103 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 689.4 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.6019092662 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.727272727 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2272727273 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22727272727 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.121657863076 0.218282227539 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0397873867847 0.0743258471296 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474970324719 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0665604191874 0.128457276422 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0493868968294 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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