Nowadays many high schools and universities require students to work on projects in groups, and all members of the group receive the same grade (mark) on the project. Do you agree or disagree that giving every member of a group the same grade is a good way to evaluate students?
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer Be sure to use your own words Do not use memorized examples.
Working in groups and teams, is an important factor in life. No matter what organization or company we join we need to work in teams at one point. Therefore, there has been extensive debate about whether it is more efficient to evaluate students on their work separately or as a whole. In my view, professors need to assign students grades based on individuals’ contribution.
First, often times there is one or two people exhausted after a group project. There are many cases that groupmates rely on only one or two members to complete and present the assignments. Yet, they gain the same score as the ones who did most, if not all of the project. This leads to exhaustion of a small number of members while others enjoy a free ride to a good grade. For example, in my last year of university we had a group project for technical languages class. All my teammates other than one announced that they couldn't help much because their English was not good. All of the work even making the PowerPoint slides fell on me and my other groupmate. After finishing this assignment, I was totally exhausted, which led me to falling behind on some other assignments I had. Therefore, I believe that when groupmates are graded together much of the responsibility may fall on one person’s shoulder, while there would be no tangible awards for their hard work other than exhaustion.
Second, responsibility is an important factor in our life. In society it is essential to take care of our own assignments because in workplace we are evaluated based on individual results even when working as a team. Grading group assignments by taking each individuals contribution into consideration allows schools to train students for their future responsibilities. For example, A friend of mine always relied on her group mates to earn a passable grade. After graduation she started working as an intern in a big company, she was given an assignment to work on as a team with other interns. Due to competition between coworkers nobody covered for her and the leader of the group revealed to the chief of their department that she had minimal participation. Hence, she wasn't hired and had to look for a new job after her internship finished. Based on this experience, I believe that if grades were assigned individually, she would have been used to working effectively in a group and handling her own responsibilities, consequently she could have gotten hired.
In conclusion, I believe grades need to be assigned individually based on each person’s contributions. Not only does this allow students to take responsibility in the future it makes it easier for some students to work as a team without getting exhausted.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 252, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... score as the ones who did most, if not all of the project. This leads to exhaustion of a ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 300, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...he project. This leads to exhaustion of a small number of members while others enjoy a free ride ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 523, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...ates other than one announced that they couldnt help much because their English was not...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 577, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: All the
...uch because their English was not good. All of the work even making the PowerPoint slides ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 258, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...rading group assignments by taking each individuals contribution into consideration allows ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 773, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...e had minimal participation. Hence, she wasnt hired and had to look for a new job aft...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, if, look, may, second, so, therefore, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 43.0788530466 111% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2243.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 457.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90809628009 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00144327956 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525164113786 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.2068450536 48.9658058833 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5217391304 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8695652174 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.34782608696 5.45110844103 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229554596862 0.236089414692 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687437668954 0.076458572812 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480586636898 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131642696044 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451862793189 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 10.9000537634 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 86.8835125448 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 252, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
... score as the ones who did most, if not all of the project. This leads to exhaustion of a ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 300, Rule ID: SMALL_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, use 'a few', or use 'some'
Suggestion: a few; some
...he project. This leads to exhaustion of a small number of members while others enjoy a free ride ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 523, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...ates other than one announced that they couldnt help much because their English was not...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 577, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: All the
...uch because their English was not good. All of the work even making the PowerPoint slides ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 258, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'individuals'' or 'individual's'?
Suggestion: individuals'; individual's
...rading group assignments by taking each individuals contribution into consideration allows ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 773, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wasn't
...e had minimal participation. Hence, she wasnt hired and had to look for a new job aft...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, hence, if, look, may, second, so, therefore, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 43.0788530466 111% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2243.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 457.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90809628009 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00144327956 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525164113786 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.2068450536 48.9658058833 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.5217391304 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8695652174 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.34782608696 5.45110844103 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229554596862 0.236089414692 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687437668954 0.076458572812 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480586636898 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131642696044 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0451862793189 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 10.9000537634 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 86.8835125448 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: 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.