any people believe that formal 'pen and paper" examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement. What is your view of examinations?
Examinations are one of the most common methods of measuring learning in education systems throughout the world. At virtually every stage of the learning process, exams are used to verify that the learner is ready to move on to the next stage. However, many people believe that the role of examinations should be reconsidered.
There are clearly certain advantages to exams. They help to ensure fairness by imposing the same conditions on all exam candidates. They are also relatively versatile; different types of exam questions, for example, multiplechoice questions and essay tasks, can test different sorts of reasoning ability. However, exams also have clear drawbacks. Test-wise candidates can often perform well on exams without having good underlying knowledge or skills. On the other hand, some test-takers perform poorly in exams simply because of anxiety. Some teachers and learners focus only on those aspects of the curriculum that are likely to be tested, thus narrowing the educational experience for all.
A number of measures should be taken to address these concerns. Wherever possible, exams should match the content and activities of the learning environment. Exam tasks should be varied to give fair opportunities to candidates with different types of skills. Other types of assessment should also be considered; assignment writing, for example, to assess independent learning and research skills, or group projects, to measure teamwork ability.
Exams clearly have a role to play in ensuring proper, objective assessment of achievement. However, exams need to be carefully designed and supplemented with other forms of assessment if they are to be a truly useful component of the educational system.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.267558528428 0.247107183377 108% => OK
Verbs: 0.157190635452 0.155533422707 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0903010033445 0.0946595960268 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0635451505017 0.0501214627716 127% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0100334448161 0.0437548338989 23% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.120401337793 0.122226691241 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0468227424749 0.0403226058552 116% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.93419306589 2.80594681477 105% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0468227424749 0.0326793684256 143% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0769230769231 0.0861772015684 89% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0234113712375 0.021408717616 109% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00334448160535 0.011925033212 28% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1739.0 1933.35771543 90% => OK
No of words: 266.0 316.048096192 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.53759398496 6.12580529183 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.20517956788 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.428571428571 0.374742101984 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.34962406015 0.28420135186 123% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.270676691729 0.203846283523 133% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.18045112782 0.137316102897 131% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93419306589 2.80594681477 105% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.037074148 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.59022556391 0.56093040696 105% => OK
Word variations: 61.8780784772 60.7387585426 102% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0891783567 99% => OK
Sentence length: 16.625 20.7743622355 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1128970002 49.517814964 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.6875 127.492653851 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.625 20.7743622355 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.814263465372 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.99599198397 75% => OK
Readability: 51.587406015 49.1944974215 105% => OK
Elegance: 1.88405797101 1.69124875643 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233485609182 0.332605444948 70% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0975014263752 0.102741220458 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0583422323595 0.0668466124924 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.517065519891 0.534860350844 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.162511781645 0.148594505496 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0962502805849 0.134430193775 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736373697451 0.0742795772207 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.324953194465 0.324371583561 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0211129728713 0.0638462369009 33% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169825191159 0.228012699653 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0681163167999 0.058150111329 117% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.68436873747 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.41683366733 117% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 5.90881763527 102% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 2.5751503006 39% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 1.9629258517 204% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.4468937876 105% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.