Formal exams are used to assess students at the end of each semester in many countries. Why are these exams used by schools and universities? What other types of assessment are possible?

Submitted by winiston on Thu, 09/19/2019 - 07:30

Numerous countries around the world employ formal examinations in assessing students at the end of each semester. Educational organizations use formal exams in order to conduct an accurate assessment for a student's level of knowledge. Practical tests as well as assignments such as research and projects are possible alternatives to written exams.

First of all, Universities and schools formally examine their pupils because it has been an extremely reliable method to accurately determine the level of understanding for which a student possesses about the topics they get taught during the semester. In addition, written tests include a wide verity of question types, each question requires the students to not only have a great deal of knowledge but also requires them to logically think about the problem that they are presented with. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson who is a professor at the university of Toronto claims that the result that students get on their exams accurately represents exactly how much the student has been studying and precisely how much effort he or she has been putting. Consequently, formal exams are the most commonly used form of examination by schools and universities.

There are other methods to examine students. Firstly, students can practically use what they learned in class which can allow them to experience the subject in a real world situation. For example in the faculty of information technology students can apply what they learned in classes such as programming languages to create their own programs and applications. Furthermore, a good way to prove comprehension is to let students make projects closely related to the subject.

In conclusion, multiple countries prefer the use of formal exams to evaluate students every semester. This type of examination has shown high accuracy levels on many occasions; Thus, it is widely used. Although formal tests are prevalent, students can also be evaluated through a series of practical tests or assignments.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, so, thus, well, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as well as, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1688.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35873015873 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9485621317 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584126984127 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 525.6 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.876112683 49.4020404114 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.533333333 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.6 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.313945336314 0.244688304435 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.099912442573 0.084324248473 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0835178136834 0.0667982634062 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190006818835 0.151304729494 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0776295106658 0.056905535591 136% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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