These days, formal ‘pen and paper’ examinations are the common approach for teachers to assess their students’ abilities. However, it is said that this method is inefficient in checking educational achievement. From my perspective, I believe that ‘pen and paper’ examinations are not a perfect way to evaluate students’ achievements.
There are numerous disadvantages to traditional assessment ways. First of all, students’ competence can be underestimated by these tests. Since many people have disparate capacities and skills, so they do not have a chance to perform in their best field through this approach. For example, some people are more likely to do better in oral methods, so by answering the questions on paper, not only they do not express enough their ideas, but they also cannot convey their exact messages. Secondly, traditional assessments are the best way for students to cheat. They just have to glance at their next partner and copy others’ ideas easily. Since then, lecturers fail to evaluate exactly their students’ abilities and performances.
In my point of view, instead of ‘pen and paper’ tests, making a speech is a great medium to assess students’ skills. When they have to present a speech, they have to gain insight into a certain topic to defend their ideas with their classmates. Since then, they will probably enhance their critical thinking. Also, they will be more self-assured when they have to take lots of these tests, so they can improve their presentation skills, which are really pivotal in their future career.
To sum up, I believe that ‘pen and paper’ examinations are not a great way to evaluate educational achievement because it lacks abilities to assess different students’ abilities as well as have more chances for children to cheat. Instead of that, I think that lecturers should assign oral exams for their students to judge exactly their performances.
- These days more and more people are going to other countries for a significant period of time either to find a job or study There are clearly many benefits to doing this but people who live abroad can also face some difficulties Discuss the advantages and 78
- convenience foods will become increasingly prevalent and eventually replace traditional foods and traditional methods of food preparation to what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion 73
- The government has announced that it plans to build a new university Some people think that your community would be a good place to locate the university Compare the advantages and disadvantages of a new university in your community 61
- The figures give information about economic growth and household expenditure across a range of categories 91
- A lot of places in the world rely on tourism as a main source of income Unfortunately tourism can also be a source of problems if it is not managed correctly Describe the advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the modern world Do you think that ben 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example, i think, as well as, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 24.0651302605 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1631.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29545454545 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89571622529 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.532467532468 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 488.7 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3516954496 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.9375 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.125 7.06120827912 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17369614321 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691738378534 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071235007701 0.0667982634062 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136698892537 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0871898592408 0.056905535591 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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