Formal exams are used to assess students at the end of each semester in many countries. Why are these exams used by schools and universities? What other types of assessment are possible?
In most of the countries, students are evaluated by formal exams at the end of every semester. These kinds of exams are used to assess students against what they are taught during the semester. Despite the widespread usage of examinations, continuous evaluation techniques are also feasible for assessment, such as projects and research assignments.
Examinations at the end of the semester are intended to measure the progress of the study and determine the level of knowledge of a student. This enables a teacher to assess a big group of students with minimal effort in a short period of time. In addition, the student wants to be evaluated in order to know where he or she stands in academics. For instance, I utilized semester examinations to find out my level of understanding in a subject and key areas to be improved. Formal examinations are still widely used in schools and universities is for these reasons.
Formal examinations are not only the way for assessing student's performance; there are other varieties of ways to measure the outcomes, which are not so formal. An end semester interview is an excellent way of evaluation where students can share their acquired knowledge with teachers. Doing a project or researching on a topic are other best types of evaluation. These methods are more practical as well as perfect substitutes for the conventional formal exams. Implementation of these modern assessments will improve the overall education system.
Universities in many countries around the world use formal examination as a method of assessment. These examinations help to evaluate the level of study of the students. However, there are other creative ways such as essay writing or research analysis that can be substituted for conventional semester examinations.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 230, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, so, still, well, as to, for instance, in addition, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1512.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26829268293 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10718571487 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.547038327526 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.9158845991 49.4020404114 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.5 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.3125 7.06120827912 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.360434476297 0.244688304435 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11448645292 0.084324248473 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0928229141078 0.0667982634062 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215142660557 0.151304729494 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576127920241 0.056905535591 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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