Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?
The importance of written examinations to evaluate student’s knowledge, which was always debatable, has now become more controversial. Students are generally examined either orally or through written examinations and assignments. It can be agreed formal written examinations are the best way of assessment, but there are several drawbacks as well. This essay will discuss both positive and negative impacts of this issue and this will lead to a logical conclusion.
At the outset, there are numerous ways to explain how formal examinations are the only path to assess pupils, but the most conspicuous one is rooted in the fact that written examinations are free of bias and give equal opportunity to all the scholars. Moreover, it not only examines students thoroughly but also improves their ability to write fast and clear. For an illustration, research in this area reveals, eighty-five percent of Australian students think written examinations are building their writing skills. Thus, it is apparent formal evaluation is only a scientific method to evaluate students.
Nevertheless, opponents of this trend tend to believe in some case, formal examinations are very old and stereo method of knowledge evaluation. Moreover, it does not assess other factors such as creativity, reading skill and memory skills. For example, recent research from Harvard University shows, examination mixed of oral and written is the best way to check pupil’s knowledge. Therefore, it is obviously true that verbal examination should be put in place to examine them better.
In view of arguments above, one can conclude that written examinations are only scientific and bias-free methods to know students knowledge and skills, although there are few drawbacks that need to be well handled.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.5418719212 180% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 8.36945812808 167% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 20.9802955665 81% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 31.9359605911 94% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1519.0 1207.87684729 126% => OK
No of words: 276.0 242.827586207 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50362318841 5.00649968141 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02189335095 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 139.433497537 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597826086957 0.580463131201 103% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 379.143842365 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7184694164 50.4703680194 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.846153846 104.977214359 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 20.9669160288 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61538461538 7.25397266985 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293279486881 0.242375264174 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104145399846 0.0925447433944 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0645690445857 0.071462118173 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175864209561 0.151781067708 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0482172297328 0.0609392437508 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 12.6369458128 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.1260098522 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 11.5310837438 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.32886699507 109% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 55.0591133005 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.5123152709 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.8888888889 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 80.0 Out of 90
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