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?
Agree
1/Most schools have more than two types of projects including personal and group projects. In terms of group projects, the basic line is, to stimulate the ability to cooperate and coordinate.
2/From students' perspective, when in a group and share same grades on the project, we can be encouraged and monitored by other group members, which leads to a substantial increase in efficiency. Also, team work may give students an obligation to support each other. When students face an unfamiliar subject, they may have urges to enhance themselves for not holding their teammates back. And students who are conversant with this field may feel accountable for helping the laggards. Also, teachers should deliberately guide their students into a part of a team, not individual participants. And giving the same grades is a way to consolidate the consensus of collective and focus more on production but not competition.
3/From teachers' perspective, It takes a bunch of time to scrutinize students one by one for their engagement and class performance and will burden teachers' workload. They need to devote those time to more valuable things like devising syllabi or individualizing education for different types of students.
4/A voice rises that it's unfair that an irresponsible teammate can be detrimental to others' final records. However, Just like the story in Aesop's Fables: A bundle of sticks. The father tells his divided sons that sticks in bundles are tighter and stronger than those single ones which are easily broken off. And discord can lead them to misfortune. Everyone will face the situation that we are all single ones after graduation, the ability to cooperate and coordinate can help us accustom more quickly to new environments like companies and neighborhoods, and reduce the stress from isolation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 43.0788530466 46% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1539.0 1977.66487455 78% => OK
No of words: 292.0 407.700716846 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27054794521 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89575197956 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 212.727598566 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.626712328767 0.524837075471 119% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 618.680645161 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.813251249 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.6 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4666666667 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.06666666667 5.45110844103 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178005031793 0.236089414692 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0561527394849 0.076458572812 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769758722007 0.0737576698707 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0972751501432 0.150856017488 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0896157855481 0.0645574589148 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.01818996416 115% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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