There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment?
One can see that there is a rising trend for estimation of student’s performansce in the form of examination rather than constant assessment. I think that the positive side of examinations is their variability and independence on subjective opinions, while the main drawback is the fact that the luck of test-takers plays a significant role.
On the one hand, the exam paper might be created absolutely randomly with the help of a computer system. This will help a teacher to possess a number of randomly-generated test variations, which increases the uniformity of hardness of tests. Moreover, such a system allows a professor to check the work without names, so that a teacher will be absolutely impartial in the assessment of students’ effectiveness. For instance, the Moscow State University has recently developed the electronic appraisal system which generates tests for the student of the faculty of physics and checks work independently.
On the other hand, there might be some outlying test in terms of difficulty. In fact, some test variants are almost bound to be arduous in order to stimulate students to prepare harder, so that a pupil who gets such a test might obtain a very bad mark. However, no amendment is made in the scoring system based on the difficulty. Nonetheless, an educator might easily exclude (or just not create) such a test or change the scoring points in this specific situation. For example, the IELTS center generates tests randomly, and exceptionally tough of them are deleted from the system entirely.
In conclusion, the examination of students might not be the worst system to check students work, since it has an array of upsides (randomness and independence), while downsides (composed hard tests) may be alleviated.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, moreover, nonetheless, so, while, for example, for instance, i think, in conclusion, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1481.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17832167832 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13927019549 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.576923076923 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7432534481 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.416666667 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.75 7.06120827912 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.149800010535 0.244688304435 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0539729094379 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0546415060782 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0935397183822 0.151304729494 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0301228469491 0.056905535591 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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