Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The debate on what it is more important for students between actually understanding ideas and learning facts has been going on for decades, specially after the invention of standardized tests. I agree with the statement that it is more important for students to understand the information that is given to them rather than memorizing facts or pieces of information for three main reasons: how quickly those facts are available online, how important is to flourish their analysis capacities, and because it improves their memory.
Firstly, in the modern world we have access to internet and electronic devices that help us to easily look for information that we forgot. For example, if a psychologist forgot the exact diagnosis criteria for a mental disease he thinks a patient have, he can look it up on internet in a matter of seconds. On the contrary, if he just focused on learning those facts and not in understanding how works the mental disease he is looking for, he wouldn't be able to identify what the patient may have in the first place.
Secondly, every career require a minimum analysis capacity to get into the work field. In this sense, if a person just focus on memorizing pieces of information, their analysis capabilities is not gonna develop and, therefore, they wouldn't be able to understand and resolve complex problems and situations in their actual work. Understanding information helps people to analyze how those concepts interconnect with each other and how can they use that information to solve real work problems.
Lastly, it is known that memorizing information is less effective in the long run than understanding the ideas behind them because people tend to easily forget information that doesn't have context nor it is really understood. In order to help people remember facts, it's needed to connect the information with previous knowledge and ideas. Likewise, if people doesn't comprehend how and why it is important the information that is given to them, they are more prone to forget it in the future.
In conclusion, I do think it is more relevant for students to understand what it is taught to them than memorizing specific facts because that information is available online, it is more possible that they could develop their analysis capacities, and it improves people's memory in the long run.
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 72
- Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage 73
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, if, lastly, likewise, look, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, in conclusion, on the contrary, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1956.0 1977.66487455 99% => OK
No of words: 386.0 407.700716846 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06735751295 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8356268475 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 212.727598566 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474093264249 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 613.8 618.680645161 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.6003584229 58% => 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: 32.0 20.1344086022 159% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.5747000632 48.9658058833 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.0 100.406767564 162% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.1666666667 20.6045352989 156% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.5833333333 5.45110844103 249% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286306439341 0.236089414692 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107925129358 0.076458572812 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0941205684647 0.0737576698707 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17097979014 0.150856017488 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113966854418 0.0645574589148 177% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 11.7677419355 157% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 58.1214874552 67% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 10.1575268817 156% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.72 10.9000537634 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 10.002688172 200% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.0537634409 147% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 10.247311828 195% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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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.