competition is a good strategy for motivating learners
Keeping learners motivated is sometimes a struggle. Any strategy must balance the need for improved understanding and knowledge against the pressures of underperforming, without stifling their original desire to learn. Competition can enhance motivation in the short term, but over time it is a poor strategy for motivating learners. What takes learners the farthest and motivates for the long term can only be found inside themselves. To truly motivate learners one must continuously stoke the fires that drive their passions.
Learning anything new is stressful, especially if it hard to absorb the material. The impact of introducing competition to learners is an additional stress that could motivate those individuals whom absorb and understand material quickly, but be disproportionately burdensome to anyone struggling to keep up. This type of external stress is good in short term bursts, but prolonged periods of competition in the learning environment can stifle the internal passion which drove individuals to learn in the first place.
Aside from the additional stress it may bring, competition against other learners could artificially limit the amount of knowledge gained by the group. When the focus becomes winning the competition, the incentive is only to grasp more than the next person not necessarily learn as much as possible. In the absence of competition a passionate learner might absorb an immense amount of material for the sheer purpose of understanding the subject. However, it is a poor strategy for motivation. Constantly reminding learners of how well their peers are performing might incentivize them to reach for only marginally better performance.
A good example of competition in a learning environment is the grade point average (GPA). It is well documented that many students stress over achieving the perfect GPA. They may be disinterested in courses, but choose to take them anyway for the sheer purpose of enhancing their GPA. The internal motivation to learn is replaced by the internal anxiety to not be judged against their peers and in many cases this leads to poor performance.
It is important to keep learners motivated in their subject, but competition is a poor strategy. It attaches unnecessary stress, artificially limits the passionate, and distracts learners from the purpose of what they're trying to achieve. The best motivation for learners is to identify what inspired them to learn in the first place and keep that fire lit so that it can continue lighting their passion throughout their journey through life.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 287, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'anyone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'struggles'.
Suggestion: struggles
...disproportionately burdensome to anyone struggling to keep up. This type of external stres...
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Line 9, column 214, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: they're
...racts learners from the purpose of what theyre trying to achieve. The best motivation ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, but, first, however, if, may, so, well, in short, in many cases, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2176.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 404.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38613861386 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02336666736 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502475247525 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 664.2 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.854784822 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.8 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55 5.21951772744 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.426526465499 0.243740707755 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.133562820147 0.0831039109588 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0933817804827 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238713051254 0.150359130593 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.103794364587 0.0667264976115 156% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.