Evidence suggests that academic honor codes, which call for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated, are far more successful than are other methods at deterring cheating among students at colleges and universities. Several years ago, Groveton College adopted such a code and discontinued its old-fashioned system in which teachers closely monitored students. Under the old system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. In the first year the honor code was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating, five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without.
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
Author suggests that on implementation of academic honor code the number of cheating cases in an examination shall reduce considerably and it is a better method than many other methods that are possible. The stated argument is highly flawed and and rife with assumptions and holes. The author claims that there are evidence to prove the code right, it is however not possible to conclude on the same as we do not have complete information on the stated claims.
Firstly, the author explains that Groveton College adopted the honor code by discontinuing the old-fashioned system in which teachers closely monitor students. He claims that on such adoption the number of cheating cases came down to twenty-one from thirty. However, this statement is rife with assumptions as it cannot be concluded that the students did not cheat without clear evidence. Honor code is student centric approach of determining the cheating practices in the examination and thus there are high chances that students are going to take advantage of this situation and may not report cheating even if they have witnessed it or have done it themselves. Without an evidence that the students are loyal and truthful we are not in a position to agree with this statement.
Furthermore, the author continues that after five years of implementation the total cases came down to 14. It is clearly visible from here that the honor code is favouring the students and that they are taking the advantage of such flawed practice. Without evidence we can aver that as the time develops students are becoming more aware of this code and finding ways to flout it. It shall not be possible to conclude that the students are genuinely practicing the code as there is no one to invigilate or spy on.
Later, the author also talks about the survey that was conducted among the students on the opinion on the honor code. While it is possible that the students have given their opinions in the survey truthfully, we cannot rely on this survey unless we have an evidence on the truthfulness of the students. Honor code being a student centric is more advantageous to the students and so an explanation can be made on the contrary. The students may not be thinking rational and may opt to stay on honor code as it is more favorable to them. Honor code helps students to ease cheating process and so the students will like to chose the same.
Finally, it is wise to conclude that the given recommendation of the author is absurd and without concrete evidence we are not in a position to take a side. While it may be possible that few students are actually practicing veracity and are giving loyal opinions, it is possible that many of the students are taking advantage of the clause. Honor code is highly suseptable to fraud and so it must be throughly evaluated before concluding on the topic.
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Comments
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: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 491 350
No. of Characters: 2322 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.707 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.729 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.623 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.55 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.413 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.65 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.55 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.144 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus, while, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.6327345309 183% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 28.8173652695 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2366.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 491.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81873727088 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70728369723 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66704479768 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.417515274949 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 765.9 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.7060119 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.3 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.55 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.274011006407 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0856450739897 0.0743258471296 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680160233034 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16042977809 0.128457276422 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667148854296 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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