Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
A hotly disputed topic in the contemporary world is that of learning. It’s primacy for students has gained public salience in recent times. The result of this new found attention has led us to work on the drivers that encourage learning. The general consensus is that the more you can absorb the more fine-tuned you become with the process of survival.
Hence, students have been goaded to draw more and more from the information at hand to prime themselves for today’s world. The easiest way to motivate them to act as a sponge is to introduce grades- an alphabet or number designated against their effectiveness in learning. However, the evidence gathered in the last 10-20 years correspond to a attenuating of learning motivation through grades. I will expand on two specific reasons for the same in the following essay.
First and foremost, the introduction of grades has had the inadvertent consequence of rendering mental health problems for the students who fare poorly in these graded evaluations. This can be observed through innumerable studies that have been carried out by organizations across the board that not only decouple the notion that grades positively impact learning but instead, point out at the fact that these grades have actually proven to be inimical to actual learning. Had it not been for these grades, we would have been grappling with far fewer number of mental health cases.
Secondly, a grade oriented learning tempts young ones to cut corners wherever possible to increase focus on areas of maxium reward and dispense with areas that are least likely to get tested in examinations and assignments. This selective approach to learning, doesn’t offer a comprehensive understanding of the subject and can even lead one in developing false notions of consummate knowledge. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. When I was in college, students in order to achieve the highest grades possible, skipped large portions of the text and primarily focused on the areas that were likely to reap the most benefit. Consequently, they got A’s in computer courses without developing the ability to code and write software programmes. If the grading woudn’t have been there, then, in all probability, these students would have endeavoured to thoroughly covered every aspect of the book and hence , would have been able to code.
All in all , there is no direct correlation between grades and learning with some saying that grades impede us from real learning while others point out to the toxic environment that has come about because of a desire to achieve these alphabets and numbers.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use simply 'consensus'.
Suggestion: consensus
...he drivers that encourage learning. The general consensus is that the more you can absorb the mor...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...d in the last 10-20 years correspond to a attenuating of learning motivation thro...
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Suggestion:
...ence of rendering mental health problems for the students who fare poorly in thes...
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to while'
Suggestion: to while
...hat grades impede us from real learning while others point out to the toxic environme...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 30.3222958057 234% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 10.0 5.01324503311 199% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2232.0 1373.03311258 163% => OK
No of words: 430.0 270.72406181 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19069767442 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.04702891845 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81076764206 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 145.348785872 176% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595348837209 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 693.0 419.366225166 165% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.4971491228 49.2860985944 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.0 110.228320801 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8888888889 21.698381199 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94444444444 7.06452816374 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175152246092 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0501458909741 0.0996497079465 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0366206908765 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0960159585041 0.162205337803 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00903656017499 0.0443174109184 20% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 63.6247240618 203% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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