“The problem of poor teacher performance that has plagued the state’s public school systems is bound to become a good deal less serious in the future. The state has initiated comprehensive guidelines that oblige teachers to complete a number of required credits in education and educational psychology at the graduate level before being certified.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the “implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.”
One ought to consider any opinion with skepticism, and the suggestion that making compulsory for teachers to complete credits in certain courses will improve the poor performance by teachers in future is no different. The author argues that in order to improve the performance of instructors in government schools, teachers should complete, as part of their training, courses in education and psychology education. The argument rests on questionable analogy that the obtaining these qualifications will automatically improve the teachers performances and that the teachers do not posses these credits.
The author relates improving the performance of teachers in future to the attaining credits in psychology and education. This claim is not sufficiently backed we do not to verify that obtaining these qualifications will improve the performance. Psychology courses are courses that deal with the human mind. there is no evidence suggesting that the instructors are lacking the necessary mental capacity to provide the required academic performances. the claim also rests on the assumption that the teachers do not posses these prerequisite courses. Teachers undergo training in many courses and psychology could be one of the training they receive. This could mean that some teachers already possess the required credits being suggested. To set the argument on more sound footing, the writer would need to demonstrate that the teachers do not posses the qualifications being suggested.
one might object that poor performances may be caused by many other factors. The argument assumes that there are no other causes for the deplorable performances in government schools. The teachers may not be to blame after all for the poor performance. In schools performances are dependent on both the instructors and teachers. Students not making effort in their academic performances always results in poor performances regardless of the teacher. The poor performances are not likely to improve in future even if the regulation is enforced if there are other factors causing the bad performance and are not addressed. To validate the argument, the author would need to provide evidence that there are no other factors that have caused poor performances apart from lacks of psychology education.
In conclusion, the suggestions made by the author to improve bad perfromnces are based on unjustifiable assumptions that teachers do not posses the suggested compulsory courses and that there are no other factors that may have caused the poor performances. To substantiate his claims, the author would need to prove without a reasonable doubt that the teachers do not posses the certificate being proposed and that there are no other factors causing the poor performances.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 427 350
No. of Characters: 2303 1500
No. of Different Words: 159 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.546 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.393 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.973 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 175 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 145 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 102 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 67 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.722 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.999 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.545 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.139 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...n and psychology education. The argument rests on questionable analogy that the o...
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...eachers do not posses these credits. The author relates improving the performanc...
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Suggestion:
...aim is not sufficiently backed we do not to verify that obtaining these qualifica...
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Suggestion: There
... courses that deal with the human mind. there is no evidence suggesting that the inst...
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...ide the required academic performances. the claim also rests on the assumption that...
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...s the qualifications being suggested. one might object that poor performances may...
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...t assumes that there are no other causes for the deplorable performances in gover...
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...y not be to blame after all for the poor performance. In schools performances are...
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...e. In schools performances are dependent on both the instructors and teachers. St...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, so, after all, apart from, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2337.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 427.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47306791569 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05148360541 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.388758782201 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 725.4 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.975085266 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.85 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.35 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.75 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192082402825 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0746270583737 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420850555604 0.0701772020484 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132925961458 0.128457276422 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397336928031 0.0628817314937 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.5979740519 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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