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.
The author suggests that the introducation of a new procedure for the students to evaluate the effectiveness of professors has resulted in professors assigning higher grades, causing an inflation in grades, which has resulted in a less favourable view of Omega university by employers which has hurt the chances of graduates securing jobs.
Although plausible, the conclusion that the evaluation procedure must be terminated is not supported by sufficient evidence.
Firstly, the author implicitly assumes that the rise in grades is a result of professors artificially assigning higher grades in order to seek more favourable evaluations for students. However, the author makes no mention of how the evaluation process works, which means a potential causal relationship cannot be established. If students evaluate professors before receiving their grades, the students have no reason to evaluate their professors more highly than they would otherwise. This also means that professors have no incentive to grade their students higher.
Even if this is not the case, and professors receive evaluations after assigning grades to students, it is possible that students are able to provide valuable feedback to the professors who can then in turn modify their teaching to better suit the students' needs, which would then result in a genuine rise in average grades. The school can compare the results of tests from groups that might have benefitted from professors implementing better teaching methods as a result of feedback to those from before such a system was introduced to obtain a more objective metric of the students' true performance in class.
Lastly, it is not immediately evident that the decrease in hiring by employers from Omega university is due to a perceived inflation of grades. Higher average grades make it more difficult for employers to separate the exceptional students from the mediocre ones, with or without inflation. The author also assumes that employers solely look to grades for evaluating the eligibility of students. It is likely that a number of other factors, such as prior experience and recommendations, are taken into account by employers. If Alpha university is more adept at aiding students with these, it follows that employers would more readily look to graduates from that university over thise from Omega.
Even if it was the case that the evaluation procedure has resulted in a grade inflation, the conclusion to terminate the evaluations cannot be justified without considering and controlling for a number of other factors, and so the university should not terminate the procedure based on this alone.
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- 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 68
- 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 66
- 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 66
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, look, so, then, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2242.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 416.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38942307692 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94073220137 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.456730769231 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.9790974417 57.8364921388 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.142857143 119.503703932 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7142857143 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.64285714286 5.70786347227 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.3602771911 0.218282227539 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.1307904532 0.0743258471296 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.096402171291 0.0701772020484 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17723016635 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0923115199168 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 14.3799401198 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.9071856287 168% => 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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