One of serious issues in education is cheating during exams such as opening documents and copying others' answer. This essay will explain about the reasons behind and the potential solution to mitigate the problem.
Cheating during tests could be due to many reasons such as underprepared and unconfident. Students who have no preparation about any materials for exams will not be able to answer properly. As a consequence, they usually try to copy their friends' answers or to open any hidden documents. Additionally, students who have studied but have low confidence also have tendency in cheating during their exams. A survey in Indonesia said that unconfident students tended to open hidden documents in order to make sure that they had put the answers correctly. Furthermore, they often shared their answers with friends just to make sure that they have the same answer.
To tackle with the issue, we can change the system of the exams itself from closed book test into open-resource examination. Therefore, students are freely accessing any resource to support their answers. However, changing the system should be followed by changing the quality of the questions. We have to formulate analytical questions which can measure critical thinking ability of students. For instance, instead of using closed questions with multiple choice answers we can use open questions that need to be answered with explanation. Hence, the exams results would be more valid in representing students’ abilities.
To sum up, underprepared and unconfident are the possible reasons contributed to the occurrence of cheating during tests. Related to the issue, changing test model and form of the questions could be offered as solutions.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, however, so, therefore, for instance, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 272.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36764705882 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81853686981 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.566176470588 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 19.3322108151 49.4020404114 39% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.25 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4375 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132591564593 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0481846698646 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0656818482094 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109991518702 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106841804659 0.056905535591 188% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, however, so, therefore, for instance, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1460.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 272.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36764705882 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81853686981 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.566176470588 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 451.8 506.74238477 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 19.3322108151 49.4020404114 39% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.25 106.682146367 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4375 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132591564593 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0481846698646 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0656818482094 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109991518702 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106841804659 0.056905535591 188% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 78.4519038076 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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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.