Two years ago Nova High School began to use interactive computer instr

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“Two years ago Nova High School began to use interactive computer instruction in three academic subjects. The school dropout rate declined immediately, and last year’s graduates have reported some impressive achievements in college. In future budgets the school board should use a greater portion of the available funds to buy more computers, and all schools in the district should adopt interactive computer instruction throughout the curriculum.”

The author of the argument suggests that, Nova High School and all other schools in the district should gravitate towards adopting the use of interactive computer instruction throughout the academic curriculum. He arrives at this conclusion, based on the Nova High School’s experimental use of interactive computer instruction in three academic subjects, two years ago. The author links the use of computers towards the decline in school dropout rate and impressive achievement of last year’s graduates. Stated in this way, the argument manipulates facts and conveys a distorted view of the situation. The argument relies on assumptions, for which evidence is not provided. The argument is rather unconvincing, given the obvious flaws.

Firstly, the argument readily assumes that improved performance of students was in the same three subjects for which computers were used to provide instructions. This statement is a stretch and not substantiated in any way. The argument does not categorically provides any information about the subjects in which students performance improved. There could be a possibility that, students would have performed better in other subjects for which computers were not used. Hence, in the absence of such information the claims of the argument cannot be validated.

Additionally, the argument illogically establishes an assumption that, the use of interactive computer instruction is the only reason for reduced school dropout rates and improved students’ performance. There are other factors as well, which affect these parameters such as change in the content of academic curriculum, better quality of teachers imparting education in the schools, enhanced motivation of students etc. Unless, a detailed analysis of this phenomenon is done coupled with sharing of specific data, it not possible to identify the reasons for such improvements so that the same measures can be replicated in other schools as well.

Finally, the argument suggests a plan to introduce computer instruction throughout the academic curriculum and expand the allocation of funds towards purchasing computers. This statement is again weak and contains a lot of logical gaps. The argument does not provides any information about the feasibility of introducing computer instruction in other subjects. There could be a possibility that computer aided instruction might not be befitting for some subjects. Moreover, the argument does not considers the possibility that, a school has to judiciously use funds available to it in various other activities and if greater proportion of funds are allocated towards purchase of computers, then it might negatively impact other aspects of school’s administration which in turn can hamper the quality of education imparted to the students.

Thus, the argument has several glaring logical gaps. It started on a sound premise but lacked necessary data to strengthen its reasoning. If the argument had drawn upon the imperative data and analysis as suggested above and thereby plugged the holes in the reasoning, it would have been far sounder on the whole.

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