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.
First of all, the students from the district of Sanlee are maybe assigned with a little amount of homework, since they are given it daily by their math and science teachers. So, we can't be sure that their daily homework is creating an overload for them. On top of that, maybe it's not because of the daily homework, but the method of teaching that they are finding difficult which is why they are unable to complete their assignments. So, we can't be sure if it is exactly because of the daily homework they are getting bad grades. Their mental health, student facilities and everything that provides them a better school environment are also some of the major factors that can affect their result adversely. So, without proving evidence that these factors are not unchecked, the author can't confirm that it is because of their daily homework that they are less likely to do good performance in their academic results.
Looking at the given data, it is observed that the students from the Manlee district are doing better in terms of their overall grades and not requiring to repeat a year in school much. The author points out that maybe it's because of the less amount of homework they are assigned, they are getting more time to concentrate on their study. If considered the given reason, maybe they are feeling less pressurized as they have enough time, if not, at least more time than students from Sanlee to comfortably focus on their acadamic studies and go through the notes and books to analyze and learn the lessons and work their way to complete the homework by time. In this case, maybe teachers from Manlee has found this to be effective for their students, which is why they don't overload them with excessive amount of assignments. But, they need to provide evidence if it is planned because of their research done on their student's performance or it has other factors that are involved with increasing their students' performance. Without confirming that it is because of the less amount of homework given to them they are doing well in their academics, we can’t comprehend that assigning few homework per week will improve the students’ overall grades.
Another evidence we must look at is the total amount of students in both the districts. Maybe, the Sanlee district has 3000 students among which the students who are not getting better grades are 40% of the total which in number 1200 students. It leaves the other 1800 students who are still doing well in spite of having daily homework in their school. But, the students who are doing well in the district of Manlee maybe 60% of the total students (1500) and that is 900 students and the other 600 students are still not being able to do well. Even though, they have less home works to do every week. If we look at the amounts, the number of students who are doing well in the Sanlee is still greater than that of Mnalee. So, the percentage will not tell us how exactly less homework is the cause of the students in Manlee to earn better grades. So, without proving concrete evidence and statistics on whether this data is thoroughly indicating that 'amount of homework' is the reason that's making the differences in the academic performance of both these districts students, the author's suggestions falls apart and it can't be considered.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to provide evidence on the three issues that are weakening its accuracy (perhaps in the form of systematic research study), then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation to assign homework at best twice a week in high school.
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: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 645 350
No. of Characters: 3030 1500
No. of Different Words: 248 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.04 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.698 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.419 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 210 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.318 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.968 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.773 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.511 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.171 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...their math and science teachers. So, we cant be sure that their daily homework is cr...
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Line 1, column 277, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...verload for them. On top of that, maybe its not because of the daily homework, but ...
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Line 1, column 442, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...e to complete their assignments. So, we cant be sure if it is exactly because of the...
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Line 1, column 642, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...em a better school environment are also some of the major factors that can affect their res...
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Line 1, column 786, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...e factors are not unchecked, the author cant confirm that it is because of their dai...
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Line 3, column 154, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'repeating'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: repeating
... their overall grades and not requiring to repeat a year in school much. The author point...
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Line 3, column 220, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
... much. The author points out that maybe its because of the less amount of homework ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...e for their students, which is why they dont overload them with excessive amount of ...
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Line 3, column 1183, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[6]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun homework seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'little homework'.
Suggestion: little homework
...ics, we can’t comprehend that assigning few homework per week will improve the students’ ove...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...g that amount of homework is the reason thats making the differences in the academic ...
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Line 5, column 1117, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... authors suggestions falls apart and it cant be considered. In conclusion, the ar...
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Line 5, column 1117, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
... authors suggestions falls apart and it cant be considered. In conclusion, the ar...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, so, still, then, well, at least, in conclusion, first of all, in spite of, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 43.0 19.6327345309 219% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 13.6137724551 184% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 28.8173652695 267% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 55.5748502994 157% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3086.0 2260.96107784 136% => OK
No of words: 644.0 441.139720559 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79192546584 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0375743251 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47534036108 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 204.123752495 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.403726708075 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 937.8 705.55239521 133% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.7588699936 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.272727273 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.2727272727 23.324526521 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54545454545 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.155993957326 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0564243952449 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560582754849 0.0701772020484 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100861724494 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0335366678352 0.0628817314937 53% => 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: 11.09 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.67 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => 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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