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.
In regards to the survey released recently, there is an assumption formed to achieve the conclusion that student who are assigned homework no more than two or three days per week would do better, and thus, the author asserted that teachers in she or he's school should assign homework in this frequency. However, this assumption is not necessarily supported through evidence and is therefore open to further scrutiny.
First, homework is the tool accompanied by teachers' teaching content. Teachers would use assignments as a supplement, which should be designed highly connected to the different needs for each class. Doing homework in a daily frequency, however, would prepare students with the ability and habit to review what they learn that day. If there is anything they could not figure out, they could aware of that immediately while doing their assignment. On the other hand, doing homework twice a week might cause students to forget or ignore the essential information in lectures. Therefore, doing homework is more important related to the teaching content and method but not frequency.
Second, the main content of homework is essential when discussing the relationship between score-earning and frequency of homework-assigned. Some assignments are meant for remembering--students could equip themselves with a sense of familiarity with certain subjects. In contrast, the other homework is assigned to cultivate student with the ability of independent researching. Apparently, these two kinds of homework are totally different, and could not be discussed in the same standard. In the previous passage, there is no further information about the content of homework, it is not rational to compare student performance from these two districts by the time they are assigned homework in a week.
Third, despite these aspects of homework, frequency, content, and links with teaching, it is dangerous to ignore the various environment to these two districts, Marlee and Sanlee. Learning environment, however, plays a more critical role when it comes to learning performance. For example, in the survey--Where do students of National Taiwan University come from-it is claimed that families which are wealth and stable are more likely to foster their children to get into the best university in Taiwan. Obviously, this key point, family condition, is something neglected by this author and left a great and manifest flaw in this survey. We could have no idea about the circumstance with these two districts, it would be ridiculous to compare students in Upper town, New York with students from the countryside.
By these three reasons demonstrated above, the link to the teaching, the content of homework, and the difference of learning environment, we could lead to an assertion that the relationship between frequency of assignment and student performance in earning school is not that highly directed as the author implied, and therefore, the method the school in the passage would like to apply to improve learning effect is not assigning homework no more than twice a week, but conducting learning frame as a whole.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 495 350
No. of Characters: 2566 1500
No. of Different Words: 231 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.717 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.184 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.785 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 194 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 160 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 120 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.634 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.307 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.509 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: Regarding; With regard to
In regards to the survey released recently, there is ...
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Line 1, column 251, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: he's
...author asserted that teachers in she or hes school should assign homework in this f...
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Line 5, column 680, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g content and method but not frequency. Second, the main content of homework is ...
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Line 17, column 492, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to frame'
Suggestion: to frame
...n twice a week, but conducting learning frame as a whole.
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Line 17, column 510, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t conducting learning frame as a whole.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, third, thus, while, for example, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2653.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 493.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38133874239 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99709863308 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48275862069 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 800.1 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 96.9461397716 57.8364921388 168% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.631578947 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9473684211 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47368421053 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224583738819 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0751267841696 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626958903472 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140822953138 0.128457276422 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0408474313056 0.0628817314937 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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