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.
The author mentions that from the data survey of high school maths and science teachers, the teachers at Marlee reported assigned homework no more than twice a week and this has resulted in their students earning more grades. In contrast, the teachers at Sanlee have assigned daily homework to students and this has not proved as an effective strategy as it is concluded that Marlee students performed better and produced better grades than Sanlee students and thus, the writer came to the conclusion that high school teachers should assign homework no more than twice a week. However, before coming to this conclusion, this recommendation would need to be properly evaluated.
To begin with, the author assumes that Marlee high school teachers assign home work twice to three times per week because this is what is reportd and backed up by the available data. But, is it possible that the Marlee high school teachers give assignments daily and do not report this information as it has become a quotidan task? That is, is their a likelihood of a scenerio of homework assigned but is not reported by the Marlee high school teachers? If this can happen, then the argument has been severely weakened and such conclusion cannot be drawn that Marlee students perform better with less assigned homework.
Secondly, could there be other factors that has proved to affect the grades of the Marlee students other than the report of less home work given? For example, the quality of their classroom, the environment in which exams are held, the skill of teachers that provided for students, all of these could be factors that ultimately lead to better grades of students in Marlee . Is there a possibility that the classrooms or centers for learning are poorly equipped thus leading to lesser grades of the Sanlee students?. A report on the learning environment of both districts would be crucial and a huge part of the analysis of whether or not the homework is the sole reason that the students at the Marlee district performed better. if this is not a case of homework, but a poorly equipped environment that led to less grades of Sanlee students, then this argument does not hold water and has been weakened.
In conclusion, homework could be just a factor among the various other factors affecting the grades of Marlee and Sanlee students, more surveys would need to be carried out, and the consistency and truthfulness of the data filled by the respondents would need to be properly evaluated to form a cogent argument and to conclusively say that homework is the sole reason could be a far fetched from the truth and might be too much of a leap.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 345, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...has become a quotidan task? That is, is their a likelihood of a scenerio of homework ...
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Line 5, column 372, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...d to better grades of students in Marlee . Is there a possibility that the classro...
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Line 5, column 624, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...cial and a huge part of the analysis of whether or not the homework is the sole reason that th...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 730, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...t the Marlee district performed better. if this is not a case of homework, but a p...
^^
Line 5, column 811, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun grades is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...poorly equipped environment that led to less grades of Sanlee students, then this ar...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2199.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 452.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86504424779 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54260366824 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.426991150442 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 659.7 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 34.0 22.8473053892 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.3416760036 57.8364921388 158% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.153846154 119.503703932 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.7692307692 23.324526521 149% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15384615385 5.70786347227 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.352432396888 0.218282227539 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149321962097 0.0743258471296 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122626000296 0.0701772020484 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222320258153 0.128457276422 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115976361235 0.0628817314937 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.9 14.3799401198 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.43 48.3550499002 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.56 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.1389221557 140% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => 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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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 345, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...has become a quotidan task? That is, is their a likelihood of a scenerio of homework ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 372, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...d to better grades of students in Marlee . Is there a possibility that the classro...
^^
Line 5, column 624, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...cial and a huge part of the analysis of whether or not the homework is the sole reason that th...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 730, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...t the Marlee district performed better. if this is not a case of homework, but a p...
^^
Line 5, column 811, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun grades is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...poorly equipped environment that led to less grades of Sanlee students, then this ar...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, in conclusion, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2199.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 452.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86504424779 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54260366824 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.426991150442 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 659.7 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 34.0 22.8473053892 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 91.3416760036 57.8364921388 158% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.153846154 119.503703932 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.7692307692 23.324526521 149% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15384615385 5.70786347227 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.352432396888 0.218282227539 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149321962097 0.0743258471296 201% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122626000296 0.0701772020484 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222320258153 0.128457276422 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115976361235 0.0628817314937 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.9 14.3799401198 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.43 48.3550499002 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.56 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.1389221557 140% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => 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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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.