Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by 30 percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in grades, believe that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately reflect student achievement; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors.’
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
While it may be true that this new procedure may have a direct implication on student's grades, we don't have enough evidence to support the assumptions that are beyond this argument. It's not hard to imagine a teacher be encouraged to inflate his student's grades just to have a better evaluation from his students, however, without reliable data supporting this statement, Omega University should not terminate this procedure without first further analyze the issue.
Citing a rise of 30% in grades, the author explains that the new method of evaluting teachers is the main responsible for it. However, this statement alone it's not clear and valid. More evidence is required, like for example, evidence that allows us to compare the level of cognitive capacity of students enrolled in Omega University today and 15 years ago. Evidence about the overall level of difficulty of the programme and the criteria of evaluation should also be compared. If by any chance, the students are more capable, or the different courses offered by this university have the same difficulty, the original argument to terminate the procedure becomes weaker, because we found that this rise in grades is not mainly provoked by the new method of evaluation of teachers.
Additionally, the author of the argument explains that potencial employers believe that grades in Omega University are inflated, making them undervalue the students. Again, the author gives a big step by justifying the underperforming of the students with the rise in grades. In order for this statement to hold, we would have to compare how recent undergraduate students would perform in the market 15 years ago with today. We should then find evidence about a decrease in real salaries and employment rate ,for students with similar grades, in these last 15 years. We should also find data about the university rankings, because this drop may be related with a decrease in the quality of the university, and not just because student's grades have risen. If we find that the university quality became constant through these last 15 years, but students are underperforming, then we have evidence that strengthens the argument. If not, the original author's position will be weakened.
Building upon this last implication that the students are underperforming in the market place due to the inflation of grades, the author also suggests that the Omega graduates are less sucessfull Alpha graduates due to this phenomenon. Another time, to prove this statement, we have to find evidence. For it, we should compare the two universities. Maybe Alpha graduates perform better because their university offers a better programme, so it has a better talent pool. Alpha University may also have better partnerships than Omega, so, when their sudents graduate, they have immediatelly better offers. We should also find data that compares this differences now and 15 years ago. Maybe Omega graduates are not underperforming as much today as they were 15 years ago, even if they are still less sucessfull. So, if we have data that shows that are real differences between the two universities, and these changes are reflected on how their graduates are valued, the author's arguments is weakened.
A teacher's evaluation method based on student's opinions oftens leads to a more soft method of evaluation by the teachers, which can lead to a increase in grades. For this reason the university may have a reason to terminate this new procedure. However, this argument should have solid evidence behind, otherwise the university's admnstration is unlikely to be persuaded by it.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 11 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 586 350
No. of Characters: 2962 1500
No. of Different Words: 232 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.92 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.055 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.768 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 219 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 167 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 131 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 77 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.44 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.257 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.72 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.494 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.182 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 99, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...rect implication on students grades, we dont have enough evidence to support the ass...
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Line 5, column 508, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ase in real salaries and employment rate ,for students with similar grades, in the...
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Line 9, column 3, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...the authors arguments is weakened. A teachers evaluation method based on students opi...
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Line 9, column 141, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...tion by the teachers, which can lead to a increase in grades. For this reason the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, still, then, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 28.8173652695 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3032.0 2260.96107784 134% => OK
No of words: 585.0 441.139720559 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18290598291 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9180050066 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82505410112 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 204.123752495 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.420512820513 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 979.2 705.55239521 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.264752392 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.28 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.84 5.70786347227 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225685391567 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0702908511945 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416592867609 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145957028757 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0220747287297 0.0628817314937 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 98.500998004 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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