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.
The study concludes that teachers in the high schools should not assign homework more than twice a week. The conclusion of the study is based on the data of the survey of high school math and science teachers in districts of sanlee and marlee. The data show that many of math and science teachers in the sanlee district assign daily home work whereas in the marlee district most of the science and math teachers assign homework no more than two or three days per week. According to the study, despite less frequency of the homework assignment, marlee students perform better overall and less likely to repeat a year of school than students of the marlee district. The study infer that most likely the students of sanlee have more time to concentrate on individual assignment than do the marlee students. I find the argument present in the study very week and not logically convincing for various reasons.
Firstly, the argument mentions non of the relevant information regarding the survey such as sample size or who conducted the survey. Thus, without providing all the relevant information which are requried to confirm the validity of the survey, it's completely illogical to draw a conclusion on the bases of survey.
Secondly, the survey was conducted on math and science teachers of the two districts. If the survery was conducted on the math and science teachers, we can only draw conclusion about there two subjects, instead the argument compares the overall grade of the students to draw the conclusion. Hence, conclusion that teachers in the high schools should not assign homework more than twice a week is based on merely weak generalisation rather than a strong premise.
Finally, the argument assumes the overall grades of the students only depend on the factors such as how frequently homework is assigned to them by teachers and amount of time they spent on individual assignments. This assumption is completely unreliable. Therefore, it's completely presumptuous to draw a conclusion the basis of such premise.
In conclusion, the conclusion is defective because of various reasons mentioned above. The author of the argument should at least provide relevant information regarding survey, support of the assumption and reason for generalisation. without mentioning these things, the argument could not hold its ground.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Thus, without providing all the relevant information which are requried to confirm the validity of the survey, it's completely illogical to draw a conclusion on the bases of survey.
Error: requried Suggestion: required
Sentence: If the survery was conducted on the math and science teachers, we can only draw conclusion about there two subjects, instead the argument compares the overall grade of the students to draw the conclusion.
Error: survery Suggestion: survey
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 379 350
No. of Characters: 1922 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.412 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.071 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.659 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.688 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.642 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.616 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.18 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 245, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...hers in districts of sanlee and marlee. The data show that many of math and science...
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Line 1, column 675, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'infers'.
Suggestion: infers
...dents of the marlee district. The study infer that most likely the students of sanlee...
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Line 9, column 235, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Without
...sumption and reason for generalisation. without mentioning these things, the argument c...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, hence, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, whereas, at least, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1967.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18997361478 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74401512034 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448548812665 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 590.4 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0099553228 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.705882353 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2941176471 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.47058823529 5.70786347227 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.399021578129 0.218282227539 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128950512178 0.0743258471296 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.168623215236 0.0701772020484 240% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176039853975 0.128457276422 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.16838162007 0.0628817314937 268% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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