Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?
Assessment is a crucial part of a student’s life. It helps teachers and parents gauge student’s knowledge and intelligence. However, type of assessment that should be used to test a student is frequently debated. Many people support formal written type of assessment that has been practiced for so long , while there are others who vote for modern methods like continual assessment.
Assessing students continuously throughout the course using various projects and home assginment has various benefits. Firstly, it will help teachers to cover the entire scope of the subject unlike formal written exam which often fall short of it. Secondly,performance in formal exam largely depends on conducive environment like student’s health and surrounding etc. and student gets only one opportunity to prove his worth. But, in continual assessment, students get multiple opportunities through several assignments. Lastly, projects help to measure student’s understanding of subject, whereas written exams are only test of memory where students with good photographic memory will perform better.
Although, continual assessment has various advantages, it is still not considered a best way to assess children. Primary reason for this is the vulnerability of home assignments to cheating. It has been observed on various occasions that children either copy from friends or complete the assignments with assistance from parents. Such is not the case in formal exam, which is always invigilated. Futhermore, in formal assessment, all students are tested under similar conditions and each student gets equal opportunity to display his intelligence.Presence of formal exam at end of the course will motivate students to pay attention in class.
In conclusion,it is clear that formal assessment is not only just to all the students but also prevents cheating. Therefore, I am of the opinion that formal written assessment is the best way of assessing children.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, whereas, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 31.9359605911 122% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 5.75862068966 295% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1675.0 1207.87684729 139% => OK
No of words: 300.0 242.827586207 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58333333333 5.00649968141 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1491967555 2.71678728327 116% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 139.433497537 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.57 0.580463131201 98% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 379.143842365 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.325123152709 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 12.6551724138 134% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.5024630542 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.1506430805 50.4703680194 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.5294117647 104.977214359 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6470588235 20.9669160288 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.88235294118 7.25397266985 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.33497536946 112% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 6.9802955665 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 2.91625615764 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.185538615444 0.242375264174 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0661944972927 0.0925447433944 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0641365089518 0.071462118173 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140457207029 0.151781067708 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.057610821998 0.0609392437508 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 12.6369458128 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.1260098522 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.9458128079 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.79 11.5310837438 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.32886699507 106% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 55.0591133005 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.94827586207 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.3980295567 85% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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