While the Department of Education in the state of Attra suggests 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, we recommend that all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In the suggestion from the Department of Education in the state of Attra, even though it is stated that they recommend high school students to get homework every day, the data opposes this as not effective . They have come to this conclusion based on the statewide survey. However, before these sugesstions can be properly evaluated, three questions must be answered.
Firstly, does not including teachers of other subjects count as a complete survey? In other words, does the rest of other subjects’ teachers have the same responses? Perhaps, the literacy educators or the English ones give homework and find it useful. Further, the students from the town of Marlee who get better results, got them in other subjects where they might still get five times weekly homework and not in math and science. If either of these scenarios has merit, then conclusion drown from the beginning is considerably weakened.
Secondly, does asking 86% of the teachers and not evaluating what the other percentage of teachers state, show enough evidence about the number of days assigned homework to students? There is no enough information that tells the amount of days that students get homework. For instance, some teachers might give homework, some not and some may declare it as optional and students may not do it.
Next, does the survey make it clear that the Marlee students who get better results are the ones that get less homework? Is 25 % enough to tell that the teachers in the town of Marlee give less homework? Perhaps 75 % of educators in this town give homework five times a week and the students get better grades. If there was accurate information then it would be better to jump on assumptions. Not knowing exactly days how often homework is given does not make an accurate connection with towns and grades they get.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now may easily be considered flawed due to its reliance on several unsupported assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence in the form of exact information then it will be possible to fully agree that less homework brings better grades for high school students.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hool students to get homework every day, the data opposes this as not effective ....
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... the data opposes this as not effective . They have come to this conclusion based...
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Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'include'
Suggestion: include
...ns must be answered. Firstly, does not including teachers of other subjects count as a c...
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...et five times weekly homework and not in math and science. If either of these sc...
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Line 4, column 312, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...eek and the students get better grades. If there was accurate information then it ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, for instance, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1814.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 367.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94277929155 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55309720386 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514986376022 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 552.6 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6381365327 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.777777778 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3888888889 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.22222222222 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307806903496 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920649672301 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0840722896041 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174931619809 0.128457276422 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0921272669458 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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 1, column 167, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...hool students to get homework every day, the data opposes this as not effective ....
^^
Line 1, column 207, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
... the data opposes this as not effective . They have come to this conclusion based...
^^
Line 2, column 19, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'include'
Suggestion: include
...ns must be answered. Firstly, does not including teachers of other subjects count as a c...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 413, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...et five times weekly homework and not in math and science. If either of these sc...
^^
Line 4, column 312, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...eek and the students get better grades. If there was accurate information then it ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, for instance, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1814.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 367.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94277929155 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55309720386 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514986376022 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 552.6 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6381365327 57.8364921388 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.777777778 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3888888889 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.22222222222 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307806903496 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0920649672301 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0840722896041 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174931619809 0.128457276422 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0921272669458 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.