Nowadays many high schools and universities require students to work on projects in groups, and all members of the group receive the same grade (mark) on the project. Do you agree or disagree that giving every member of a group the same grade is a good way to evaluate students? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Be sure to use your own words. Do not use memorized examples.
There is no shortage of opinion on the best way to evaluate students performances in colleges or high schools. Personally, I disagree that giving all members of a group equal marks in a project is a good way to measure their performances. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will analyze in the following paragraphs.
First of all, giving all members equal marks will encourage free riding. More importantly, this will encourage laziness and some would not like to participate at all. This can also cause problems within the group members because people that work won't be happy if others get credit for something they didn't do. Drawing from my own personal experience. In my second year in the university, we were given a project on chemical titration. This project was to be done in the chemistry lab in the school. On the day we are to carry out the experiment, we found out that the lab was untidy because the group that made use of it the previous day left the lab without washing the equipment and cleaning the lab. We decided to divide the work between ourselves, so that some will do the cleaning while others will do the experiment. I was part of those that were to do the chemical experiment. The people to clean the lab were given thirty minutes to do the cleaning before we can begin the chemical titration. After thirty minutes those guys that were supposed to clean the lab left without doing the work, because they know that if we didn't see them we will be forced to do the work and at the end everybody will get the same mark.
We waited for them to clean the lab, but they didn't show up. At the end we did the cleaning and also completed the experiment. The day we submitted the work to the chemistry lecturer, everybody in the group was given equal marks. This left me and the others that did the work very angry. This experience clearly shows why every member of the group shouldn't be given equal score.
Secondly, awarding equal marks to all group members could lead to overestimation of students performance. Obviously, people that didn't participate in the group work won't know much about was given. For instance, in my fourth year in the university, we were given a group work to analyze a control system using Laplace Transformation. This work required that we learn the fundamentals of Laplace Transformation and its applications before we can solve the problem. After the professor of the course shared the students into groups, some members didn't work. When we submitted the work the lecturer assumed that everyone participated. He set similar question in the exam and expected everybody to get. To his surprise, some people failed it. Those that failed it were the students that did not work and because of this, he vowed not to give a group project again.
In conclusion, I believe same score should not be awarded to people in a group. This is because some group members will not work and it could lead to overestimation of students performance.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, secondly, so, while, as to, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 43.0788530466 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.0752688172 211% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2463.0 1977.66487455 125% => OK
No of words: 526.0 407.700716846 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6825095057 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61565800271 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.422053231939 0.524837075471 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 764.1 618.680645161 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6003584229 146% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.8787502527 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.1 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5333333333 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.56666666667 5.45110844103 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281414904891 0.236089414692 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0841617738942 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0821566135581 0.0737576698707 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.19929548463 0.150856017488 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0569412703261 0.0645574589148 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 11.7677419355 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.57 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.91 8.01818996416 86% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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