Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by 30 percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in grades, believe that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately reflect student achievement; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors. Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The measure introduced by the Omega university implemented was a good way to judge the teaching capabilities of the teacher in question. And who else is a better judge than the students themselves, right? But the professors took the easy way out to avoid the scrutiny by abusing the implemented rule. There are benefits of this rule, Firstly, if the students evaluated that certain teacher is lacking in some area such as not being able to explain some concept or if the teacher is having an erratic or objectionable behaviour the they would be provided with the required training or their questionable behaviour would be rectified.
But what ensued was that the teachers circumvented the system and started awarded the students with more marks.The rule which was implemented to improve the overall teaching of the faculty which would have upped the ranking of the university. I agree with the statement above, that the sudden dramatic increase in the average marks of the students is certainly suspicious. And the potential employers being very wary of whom they are hiring took no time to notice that Omega university had a sudden jump in the average marks. even though they got "good" marks they would definitely face difficulty ro get a job than earlier because of the possibility of the university being flagged of increasing the marks of their students.
We can say that the faculty members did this in order to avoid the responsibility of coming face to face with their lackings, problems etc, which might be becuase of their misplaced and large egos. Just because someone is a teacher does not mean that they cannot be wrong or that they do not need to learn anything. We as humans learn something new with each and every passing hour and there is no harm in coming out and accepting that they still might need to learn some new way to teach or the need a training in order to bolster their shortcomings. Also with technology being incorporated in the classrooms, the teachers need to be always on the lookout for some novel ways, which might even go in the complete opposite direction of the way they are used to teach, But which changing times the teachers should also need to tweak their teaching patterns.
To rectify this issue, Omega university should scrap the rule for now just to stabilize the problem at hand so that the future of the students do not suffer because they will always have the option to implement this rule again, and if they decide to carry out this rule again they can take a lesson from this and make sure that no teacher is bribing the students with more marks in order to score good on their student evaluation and to avoid facing their problems as this might again hamper with the students' futures.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 478 350
No. of Characters: 2231 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.676 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.667 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.45 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 36.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.344 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 528, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'they'?
Suggestion: the; they
...g an erratic or objectionable behaviour the they would be provided with the required tra...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 112, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: The
...ed awarded the students with more marks.The rule which was implemented to improve t...
^^^
Line 3, column 527, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Even
...had a sudden jump in the average marks. even though they got 'good' marks ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 612, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (ro) must be used with a third-person verb: 'gets'.
Suggestion: gets
...hey would definitely face difficulty ro get a job than earlier because of the possi...
^^^
Line 3, column 685, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the possibility of the university being flagged of increasing the marks of their...
^^
Line 5, column 489, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ight need to learn some new way to teach or the need a training in order to bolst...
^^
Line 5, column 554, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...in order to bolster their shortcomings. Also with technology being incorporated in t...
^^^^
Line 5, column 755, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[5]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'used to teaching'.
Suggestion: used to teaching
... opposite direction of the way they are used to teach, But which changing times the teachers ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, so, still, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2277.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 477.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77358490566 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56500472486 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.461215932914 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 704.7 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 36.0 22.8473053892 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 116.992034321 57.8364921388 202% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 175.153846154 119.503703932 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.6923076923 23.324526521 157% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23076923077 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177668246128 0.218282227539 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688362085383 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0371723890622 0.0701772020484 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120234281341 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.017222836754 0.0628817314937 27% => 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: 19.4 14.3799401198 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.4 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.98 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 11.1389221557 147% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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