While the Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The claim that teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week is based on the data from a survey of high school math and science teachers which shows that in district sanlee, teachers assign 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 and the students here earn better grades overall and less likely to repeat year than that of sanlee. such claim is based on assumptions which are needed to be evaluated with evidence before claiming that they are valid.
Firstly, how accurate is the survey? when and how was the survey done? may be it was taken at a time when there was not much students and teachers available to participate in the survey. may be only the teachers of sanlee who give daily homework and the teachers who gives homework less frequently in marlee took part in it. Perhaps the students with good grades and no repeat year were send from marlee to take part in the survey in order to keep the school's reputation. what if it was taken online and only the smart students with good academics have the access to the internet in marlee? Without proper answers of such questions, survey data is unreliable.
Secondly, does earning better grades overall mean the same for the subjects science and math? what if students of marlee has overall better grades but poorer grades in math and science than sanlee? may be the teachers of the courses other than math and science in marlee assigns daily homework? does Samnlee and marlee have similar difficulty level exams? what if sanlee is the more strict school who is famous for passing only the scholars? may be marlee focuses on the reputation of school more than the quality education which is why they are less likely to repeat year to their students. if they are true, such approach is invalid.
Finally, if marlee students focus on individual assignments, would that be equally effective for sanlee students? what if sanlee students are too weak to do individual assignments and that's why they are given daily homework? The answer must contribute to the ultimate decision.
In conclusion, the points mentioned here must be evaluated with credibility before implementing any such approach. there is a possibility that a better solution would come out after poper analusis of the above points.
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: 10 15
No. of Words: 409 350
No. of Characters: 1946 1500
No. of Different Words: 174 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.497 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.758 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.313 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 40.9 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 27.635 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.378 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.674 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.057 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, whereas, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1992.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 409.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87041564792 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39124054342 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.457212713936 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 605.7 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 86.9212117504 57.8364921388 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8571428571 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4761904762 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95238095238 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 20.0 5.25449101796 381% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2956221962 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0751464581362 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0767457424418 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152382066789 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0910374452695 0.0628817314937 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.3799401198 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 26.0 12.3882235529 210% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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