难易程度:★★
题目题材:教育
gre argument 193题目:
The Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day. Yet a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers(1) calls the usefulness of daily homework into question. 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(6), less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week(2). Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school(3) than are the students in Sanlee(4,5,9). Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice(7) a week(8), if at all.
提纲:
(1)The result of the survey lacks credibility because many teachers in other subjects were actually excluded from the survey.
(2)The author provides no information about the respective total amount of homework assigned each time in Sanlee and Marlee.
(3)The author fails to establish the causal relationship between homework frequency and students’ performance.
(4)Many other differences between Sanlee and Marlee could explain the differences in their students’ grades and likelihood to repeat a year of school.
(5)The students’ grades and likelihood to repeat a year of school are not a good indication of the quality of education.
(6)The two districts may not be representative of the state's school districts overall.
(7)The author fails to illustrate why we should assign homework no more than twice a week, but not more or less.
(8)The author ignores some negative effects of assign inadequate homework.
(9)The author unfairly assumes that any educational activity is valuable only to the extent that it enhances overall grades.
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