▶ Your Answer :
In this given material, the author concludes
that all
teachers in the state of Attra should assign homework no more than twice a
week. To reinforce his conclusion, the author applies
the case of two districts, Sanless and Marless. Although 25 percent of teachers
in the Marless reported assigned homework three to five times a week and 86
percent of the teachers in Sanlee assigned homework in the same way, the
students in Marless earn better grades and less likely to be required to repeat
a year of school. However, this stands as
overgeneralization and the unstated assumptions need to be examined because of
several reasons.
To start with, the number of distinct districts the
author applies are insufficient to verify the effect of reducing the frequency
of homework. There could be more than then districts in the state of Attra; so
the number of districts must be specified. Also,
the exact numbers of teachers and students in both Sanlee and Marlee are
required to be stated to verify the effectiveness of incresement in academic
performance according to less homework. In the same token, the author must
clarify how many teachers were actually answered in the survey. For instance, there may be circumstances that 100
teachers in the Sanlee and 1,000 in Marless. In this case, 86 teachers in
Sanlee and 250 teachers in Marless assigned homework frequently, meaning more
teachers in Marless actually assigned homework more than twice a week than
those in Sanlee, thus the result of the survey become unreliable.
In addition, the author’s assumption that the frequency of homework
is the only determining factor of the grade is
disputable. There may be other factors that affect the students get
better grade such as educational condition and the district’s affluency. For example, if the district of Marless is much richer
area and equipped with better educational conditions with competitive teachers
and large classroom, no wonder the Marless’s grade is higher than that of
Sanlee.
Moreover, the author’s presumption that the frequency of homwork is
directly relevant to the grade begs the question whether
the students actually did the homework. To elaborate in
detail, there could be circumstances that students in Sanlee did not
their homework because they are overwhelmed. For this
reason, the author must clarify the actual time of study in both
district to verify that more frequent homework lead to more time to study. On the other hand, to judge what factor is mostly
likely affect the better academic performance, the author should compare
students with various performances within the same classroom.
Therefore, via these convincing explanations,
the author’s claim gets rendered unpersuasive. The author should reconsider his
conclusion and specify more
information in order to compare academic performance in those two districts. In particular, the author must examine the surrounding
conditions in both Sanlee and Marless districts and state exact number of
survey respondants in order to get better credibility to those cases.
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