Should students be allowed to choose which classes they take, or should they be required to take the same classes as everyone else?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach to education?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
While some schools enable their students to choose the subjects they would like to study, other schools have a general curriculum for everybody. Each education system has its benefits and drawbacks that will be described further.
On the one hand, students obtain a qualification in a certain field if they can attend only the classes they prefer. Because they do not have to spend time on studying other disciplines, they focus on mastering several subjects. Therefore, such students become highly-qualified in a specific field of studying. Moreover, such students have higher education results because they are more motivated than other students, whose time and effort are spread on numerous disciplines to study. Recent studies of the Jacksonville College showed that while 75% of students who had a personal curriculum scored only A during finals, only 33% of the regular students achieved the same score. Undoubtedly, this is an advantage of the liberal approach and is what a classic one lacks.
Meanwhile, if all students attend only the classes they want to, this might backfire with a lack of knowledge in other essential subjects. Whether students like it or not, but some classes are necessary and must be mastered. For example, in college, I was not a fan of physics and tried to skip its classes the whole time. However, when I started working with blind people, I found myself having a need in knowledge of lenses that I could have obtained during the physics classes. This is a drawback that students can face if they do not attend all the classes like it is required in a classical approach.
To conclude, while personalized education curriculum benefits to students with a qualification in a specific field and higher scores, they may miss the opportunity to study other essential information.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 198, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n studying other disciplines, they focus on mastering several subjects. Therefore...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1522.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10738255034 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80977304376 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543624161074 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.2704515806 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.714285714 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2857142857 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236020530925 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885770772218 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0462148358715 0.0667982634062 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141397147309 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.041165326968 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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