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?
It is no secret that group assignments make a significant contribution to developing some positive characteristics in children. In fact, it paves the way for students' effective learning. In this regard, the inevitable question which has always caused heated debate among people is that whether all members of a group must be given the same score, or it is not a fair evaluation method for grading students. From my vantage point, since the performance of each student in a group is not the same and, some of them might make a considerable contribution compared with other members, it can culminate in a sense of unfairness among students so that it is not a good assessment strategy. In the following paragraphs, I will delve into two conspicuous reasons to elaborate on my standpoint.
The most significant point to be mentioned is that providing students with the same score, when they work as a team on a certain project, can make students unmotivated. Furthermore, when students receive the same score with those students who do not make an effort, students can interpret that hardworking students and lazy ones are not distinguished and, there are not any differences between them which can make students discouraged to dedicate enough time to work on group assignments. Take a personal experience as an example, I used to have a friend in high school who did her best in carrying out group projects. In working on a specific group project, when she found out all members of a group will receive the same mark, she gave up on working hard on the project. Had not she become demotivated, she would have devoted more time to the project and learned more things.
Another paramount reason which should be referred to is that giving the same score to all members of a group and do not distinguish them from each other can lead to some psychological problems in students. Accordingly, a ground-breaking study, which has been conducted in my hometown recently, revealed that when students encounter unfairness in schools, it brings about deleterious mental problems in students which can affect their future lives.
To recapitulate, all the aforementioned reasons lead us to the conclusion that students should not be evaluated with the same score in group assignments, for it not only makes students unstimulated to do their tasks, but also triggers some irreversible mental problems in children. As far as I am concerned, I recommend that teachers differentiate between good and bad performances and not assess them with the same score.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, furthermore, if, so, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.0286738351 181% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2121.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 422.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02606635071 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02477082794 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 651.6 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => 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: 30.0 20.1344086022 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.3036370642 48.9658058833 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.5 100.406767564 151% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1428571429 20.6045352989 146% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.71428571429 5.45110844103 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
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: 0.342357989504 0.236089414692 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118665879139 0.076458572812 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0906114818773 0.0737576698707 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200734352879 0.150856017488 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.070705911098 0.0645574589148 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 11.7677419355 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 58.1214874552 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.49 10.9000537634 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.0537634409 139% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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