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.
There are several opinions regarding the teaching methods for students, whether they should be more focused on the concept and ideas or they should be more focused on facts. In my opinion, the students should be more focused on the concepts and ideas rather than simply to learn the facts due to following three reasons.
Due to technological evolution, all the information is easily available on a single click of a computer. All the facts, formulas and information is stored on the cloud which is easier to locate. Therefore, one shouldn't be too much focused on the information but rather than he/she should be more focused on the concept or idea of a theory or any other important aspect. For example, a concept called as right hand thumb rule has varied applications, starting from opening a screw to opening lid of any box. We can any time google how the direction of thumb and finger is associated. However, one can accurately use such concept if he/she is fully aware of the concept. To give one more example, there is a formula to determine the the length of direct/transverse common tangent of two circles. We can easily look it up on google. But in case there is no accessibility of google on any other medium, the student should be so equipped that he/she should be in a position to derive the formula by using the pythagorus theorem(Which is the main deriving principle of this formula). Therefore, I think that students should be more focused on the ideas and concepts rather than just the facts.
Furthermore, if we are well aware of the concept, then we can inspire work in another domain.For example, if a student is well aware of the concept of measurement of pressure, maybe he/she can use the same principle in calculating the blood pressure for patients in more efficient way. Hence, we can provide such inspired solutions if we are clear with the concepts and idea.
We also know that human memory is very volatile. We can forget the information that we have read/listened or saw within few days if we don't revisit again. But once we build a story around any information, it is easier for us to remember. While we learn a concept or understand any idea, we try to imagine by being in author's shoes, we try to question the concept so as to holistically evaluate the concept. In this way, the information can be stored in our minds for a longer time. So if we focus mainly on ideas/concept, the information is automatically stored in our mind.
Due to above mentioned points, I think that students should be more focused on learning about the concepts and ideas rather than learning facts, since information is anyways readily available. Such concept based learning can inspire solutions in other domains and learning facts is a byproduct if we focus on concepts.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, then, therefore, well, while, as to, for example, i think, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 15.1003584229 185% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2311.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 484.0 407.700716846 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77479338843 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78264827924 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45041322314 0.524837075471 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 743.4 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.9097289247 48.9658058833 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.045454545 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.6045352989 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.81818181818 5.45110844103 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211164869974 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0723362327798 0.076458572812 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060961614651 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147651324992 0.150856017488 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0359087073724 0.0645574589148 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.01818996416 100% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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.