Competition for high grades seriously limits the quality of learning at all levels of education.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Nowadays, grades are often deemed anachronistic measure to gauge the student's ability. In this light, it is often argued that at all levels of education, simply enforcing students to blindly compete for high grades greatly mars the overall quality of learning. However, although there are indeed some cases where the competition for the good grades deteriorates the learning quality, I adamantly believe that it cannot be generalized to all fields and levels of education.
To begin with, there are indeed some instances where the competition for high grades seriously vitiates the pedagogical quality. In those cases, it is because the exams are not meticulously designed to assess the degree of understanding but rather simply designed to give high scores to those who blindly memorize all the textbook information. The epitomical example shall be Suneung, the college entrance exam of South Korea. As notorious it is, the majority of South Korean students strive to get a higher score in Suneung, in order to get matriculated in some prestigious universities. Meanwhile, since high scores in Suneung can be most efficiencly achieved by memorizing the textbook information, South Korean students in general toil to simply memorize the concepts of their textbooks. Therefore, although South Korean studens are famous for their lucubrating traits, many of the students give up their dreams and pursue lucrative careers due to the wearisome competition.
However, when an exam is carefully designed to assess how well students are understanding and gives grades in accordance with that assessment, the competition can increase the quality of education. This is because the main purpose of the pedagogy is to let students understand the core logic of the subject. For example, in case of dealing with Intermational Math Olympiad (IMO), there is a strong correlation between the academic success and the grades of the competitors. There are many prominent scholars, such as Terrence Tao, who won the medals in IMO and exhibit outstanding academic performances. They point out that their competition for winning a medal in IMO played a pivotal role in their decision to pursue the academic career and also in their academic success by fostering themselves to understand the fundamenal aspects of mathematics. As this compelling example reveals, carefully designed exam can actually increase the quality of learning by making students understand more thoroughly.
In brief, although there are cases where the competition for high grades deteriorates the educational quality, the competition with the cleverly designed exam can aggrandize the quality of learning. Therefore, in order to bolster their educational quality, teachers should first try to ameliorate their exams rather than seeking other experimental yet unqualified pedagogical methodologies.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 70, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...emed anachronistic measure to gauge the students ability. In this light, it is often arg...
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Line 2, column 384, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...The epitomical example shall be Suneung, the college entrance exam of South Korea...
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Line 3, column 73, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...ly designed to assess how well students are understanding and gives grades in accordance with tha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in brief, in general, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2414.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 437.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.52402745995 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.997025093 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489702517162 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 778.5 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1547128978 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.0 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7058823529 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.41176470588 5.21951772744 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16154915921 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0593884192439 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619194506483 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115224534918 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0406627737472 0.0667264976115 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.1392134831 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 48.8420337079 60% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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