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 author of the argument claims that Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors so that their graduates can secure better jobs. In order to justify this claim the author cites how overall grades have increased because of the students’ evaluating their professors and how these grades are perceived by potential employers. The author makes several assumptions to validate his claim and if he does not provide further evidences regarding the following two assumptions, would severely hamper the persuasiveness of his claim.
First, students of Omega University have been evaluating their professors on their teaching and delivery of lectures ever since the new procedure was implemented 15 years ago. It is possible that the students can provide a good or bad feedback and also maybe write a review on how the professor can improve on their teaching. Maybe the students’ identified flaws and were able to correct the professors so that they can grasp the content of a lecture better. It is possible that it was because the student’s complained about their inability to perceive what the professor is teaching that the grades of the student’s lacked greatly then as compared to now, which could have prompted the university to implement the students’ feedback procedure. If this is the case, the students’ grades actually improved because the professors heeded the advice from the students and modified their teaching pattern to better suit the grasping ability of the students. If this indeed happened, then the students learned better than they did previously and hence scored a better grade which explains the high grades of students in Omega University mentioned by the author and hence his claim does not hold water. The author has to provide evidence that the students’ feedback did nothing to improve the professor’s delivery or increase the student’s ability to learn better and also maybe justify that students’ feedback might have been flattering the professors and as a result, the professors became lenient and gave higher grades.
Second, the author cites potential employers not recruiting students of Omega University because they believe that the grades are inflated. It is possible that potential employers heard of a rumour that were specifically targeting Omega University as a result of their increase in performance levels and hence decided to not recruit from the university. It is also possible that the decision making authority had an option to choose Omega University or Alpha university but he had a bias towards Alpha university and cited the reason of the rumour about inflated grades to justify his decision. If that is the case, the author’s claim to terminate the student evaluation of professors is based on spurious reasoning. The author must provide solid evidence on why potential employers decided to not recruit graduates from Omega University and also justify his claim by providing evidence that relates student evaluation on professors with grades and as a result affected the companies recruitment decision.
In conclusion, the argument of the author as it stands now rests on several assumptions. The author has to provide strong evidence perhaps in the form of a survey about how a professor’s emotions play a role on his evaluation of students’ grades. He also has to justify that the potential employer’s decision is because of the inflation and not some spurious case of bias or rumour. Thus, the argument as it stands now, is fallacious and the author needs to provide further evidence to vindicate his claim.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 576 350
No. of Characters: 2965 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.899 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.148 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.679 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 238 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 184 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 140 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 79 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.316 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.504 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.895 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.387 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.557 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.142 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1351, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...increase the student’s ability to learn better and also maybe justify that students’ f...
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Line 5, column 975, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'companies'' or 'company's'?
Suggestion: companies'; company's
...ith grades and as a result affected the companies recruitment decision. In conclusion,...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, if, may, regarding, second, so, then, thus, as to, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3042.0 2260.96107784 135% => OK
No of words: 576.0 441.139720559 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28125 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81949361958 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.390625 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 951.3 705.55239521 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.6872117605 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.105263158 119.503703932 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3157894737 23.324526521 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.89473684211 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385795701514 0.218282227539 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148430553061 0.0743258471296 200% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121128142093 0.0701772020484 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232357544323 0.128457276422 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.133993497607 0.0628817314937 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.57 48.3550499002 67% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.94 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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