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
The department of education of the state of Antra has proposed that decreasing the homework given for a week would help in improving the grades of the students and presented an analogy between two other schools to buttress the claim. However, diligent analysis of this opinion has shown that the recommendation given here is flawed and unreasonable with multifold assumptions and gives rise to questions that would immensely undermine the credibility of the stated opinion. In order to be seemed convincing, the author should have given adequate facts and data to reinforce the assertion.
First and foremost, the author of the piece of information has presented a comparison survey between the lecturers of Sanlee and Marlee, provided that Sanlee’s 86 percent of the teachers have reported converging to giving less homework in a week. Nevertheless, the differentiation is done based on percentage and there is no numerical base on which the percentage is calculated. Perhaps, 86% of Sanlee’s teachers comprise only 7 or 8 teachers as the survey could have taken among 10 teachers. Meanwhile, in Marlee, the number of instructors considered for research might be 100 and 25% of them would be around 25 educators. Without properly numbered data, these percentages submitted would not uphold the argument to an unquestionable degree.
Secondly, one of the threshold limits of the statement is, that the children’s overall grades in Marlee are high as well as only scant students are repeating the same class when compared with Sanlee. Notwithstanding this, the head of the education department failed to depict the environment of the two schools. There are myriad factors that would make students procure good grades in academics like, the infrastructure of the schools might be splendid, the quality of tutors edifying kids might be high, the curriculum followed by the school might have laid a strong foundation for the subjects maths and science. Without analyzing the other cardinal criteria, the argument is not seemed to be convincing.
Finally, the authority of education has presented its school of thought regarding the implementation of the same policy as Malree’s by reducing the number of homework given in a week. Nonetheless, the suggestion failed to mention certain facts regarding how the teachers of Marlee produce good results in the classes. The teachers of their state would give assignments as classwork instead of giving homework by extending class hours by preferring to monitor the students and helping them solve the problems in the school to clarify the doubts on the spot rather than giving homework.
To recapitulate, the author of the presented proposal has overlooked certain significant elements such as logical depiction, statistical evidence, unification of facts, hence making the argument a fallacy. Without any firm proof to endorse the idea of incorporating the suggestion of reducing the homework and the dearth of clarity on the teaching techniques of Martlee and with several other flaws, any relevant answers for the questions proposed would strengthen the argument to an extent. Otherwise, this recommendation is not appealing to be instilled in Attre to improve the grades of the students, and consequently the argument is untenable.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 518 350
No. of Characters: 2709 1500
No. of Different Words: 251 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.771 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.23 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.925 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 215 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 171 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 132 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.988 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.546 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.063 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, hence, however, if, look, nevertheless, nonetheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, then, well, while, in fact, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 55.5748502994 144% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2778.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 518.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36293436293 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77070365392 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01120431239 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 204.123752495 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507722007722 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 845.1 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.76447105788 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.8808314354 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.333333333 119.503703932 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7777777778 23.324526521 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.72222222222 5.70786347227 170% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243485681797 0.218282227539 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0652419208618 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.051394323017 0.0701772020484 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129886457365 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555590067841 0.0628817314937 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 14.3799401198 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.4 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 98.500998004 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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