Educators should base their assessment of students' learning not on students' grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Assessments and evaluation of students in paramount in schools and colleges. It provides information to teachers or educators whether students understood the concepts that were taught in schools or colleges. Here, the author contends that students should be evaluated by their understanding of concepts/facts rather than applications those facts bring upon. In my opinion, I partially agree with the author’s conclusion for the following reasons.
To begin with, students start their elementary school by learning facts. They don’t have the maturity to think deeply and hence educators should focus students on assessing facts. For example, social science is filled with facts about wars and historical events. Students should be tested on how well they can grasp the facts and memorize them.
Also, after their elementary school, students enter college where they study convoluted topics. In this stage, students should be evaluated on then insight of ideas, trends and concepts. In case of social science, instead of learning “what, when and where”, students should learn “why” the event took place. For example, in India, Gandhi played a great role in fighting for Independence. In his fight, he protested against the British colonies but why? It is because of the fact that the British used Indians as slaves. Gandhi wanted to admonish slavery in India so he took part in the Non-violence moment. Thus, students should be evaluated based on ideas after attaining a maturity in their field of study.
However, this is not the case for all fields of study. Take, for example, subjects like maths, physics and chemistry are filled with facts that are permanent and cannot be changed. Thus, only facts can be assessed in some fields.
In conclusion, educators should consider the students maturity and accordingly conduct assessments. It also differs based on the specialised subjects that the students want to pursue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, hence, however, if, so, then, thus, well, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1633.0 2235.4752809 73% => OK
No of words: 304.0 442.535393258 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37171052632 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.55969084622 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6877536439 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 215.323595506 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 470.7 704.065955056 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 23.0359550562 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.3093334222 60.3974514979 42% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 77.7619047619 118.986275619 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.4761904762 23.4991977007 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.80952380952 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.299521765046 0.243740707755 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.090191198527 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0619867150483 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173556677425 0.150359130593 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0571258308101 0.0667264976115 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.73 48.8420337079 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 12.1743820225 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.27 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 100.480337079 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.2143820225 68% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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