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 Sale. 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 data provided from the survey of high school math and science teach it shows that in the district of Sanlee many teaches gave daily homework whereas in the district of Marlee most of the teachers reported assigning homework no more than a week. It is a clear matter of fact that the students of Marlee had more time to concentrate on other work like assignment, personal building and free time also. Gaining various insights from the survey we can deduce to some of the below-marked points.
Firstly, it clearly shows from the survey that despite of math and science teachers giving daily homework in district of Sanlee they didn’t have had better grades. On the other hand, the students from the district of Marlee who had less homework compared to the students of district of Sanlee they had even better grades overall. It never depends on how much homework you give the students to do as studying and learning has never been a piece on quantity rather than being a quantitative term it is a qualitative term.
Secondly, as mentioned it shows that the students of Marlee were very less likely to repeat a year while comparing them to the students of Sanlee district. These all points therefore call into the question that whether these frequent assignments did really help to boost a student’s academic performance. It can be inferred that the teachers of Marlee would be focused more on the student’s quality of homework he does and understands the topics and concepts rather than giving away a whole lot of burden every day.
Thirdly, as the students of Marlee had no daily assignments they had a sufficient amount of time to concentrate on individual assignments than the students of Sanlee. So, it was also beneficial to them that they could have focused better on the individual assignments and they would have also prepared well for the exams. As on the other hand, those students of Santee who had there homework every day would not be able to give as much time to focus on their individual assignments, while many of their might have had utilized keeping them engaged with their daily homework.
Finally, it can become up to the conclusion that the evidence given for the argument truly concludes that teachers in high schools should not assign homework more than twice a week. More work than that only acts as a burden for a student and that doesn’t help him or her focus on their individual assignments. It can clearly be implied that the frequency of homework given daily to the students is not directly proportional to the marks obtained by them. So, the argument truly supports the fact that came up from the survey of high school math and science teachers.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 466 350
No. of Characters: 2181 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.646 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.68 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.468 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.801 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.607 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.185 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 399, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...gnment, personal building and free time also. Gaining various insights from the surv...
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Line 1, column 463, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...sights from the survey we can deduce to some of the below-marked points. Firstly, it cle...
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Line 3, column 308, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'bettered', 'welled'.
Suggestion: bettered; welled
...nts of district of Sanlee they had even better grades overall. It never depends on how...
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Line 5, column 486, Rule ID: WHOLE_LOT[1]
Message: Use simply 'lot'.
Suggestion: lot
... and concepts rather than giving away a whole lot of burden every day. Thirdly, as the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, thirdly, well, whereas, while, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => 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: 2235.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 464.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81681034483 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53515616054 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.435344827586 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 675.0 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 42.0609212185 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.6875 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.9375 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376279836204 0.218282227539 172% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136224033837 0.0743258471296 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.165400953978 0.0701772020484 236% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.235379812733 0.128457276422 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.125397651432 0.0628817314937 199% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.27 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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