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.
In the above argument, it is stated that Omega University has implemented a new procedure for students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of their professors and since then professors have begun to give the students higher grades in their classes, because of which employers have begun to believe that these grades are not accurate and hence students are losing on job opportunities. Omega University believes that if they want to enable their graduates to secure better jobs, the university should terminate student evaluation of professors. However, before directly coming to this conclusion there are a lot of factors which need to be evaluated and understood to make the right decision.
As a first step, more insight has to be gained on the new procedure which encourages students to evaluate teaching effectiveness of all their professors. It is important to understand what exactly is this procedure and how students can evaluate the teaching effectiveness of professors based on it. By gaining this insight, a study has to be done to analyze the correlation between the procedure and the students being assigned higher marks in class. It is possible that the procedure for evaluation has absolutely no relation with students gaining higher marks in class.
Furthermore, the argument states that the overall student grade averages at Omega University have risen by 30 percent. The argument fails to take into account the fact that it can also be due to students performing better than before or professors more efficiently imparting knowledge to students. It can also be due to the fact that the university has replaced the professors which has led to increased understanding of the subjects among students which in turn has resulted in students delivering better results during their examinations now. To state that students are gaining higher marks in tests just because of the new procedure is an inadequate statement and much more evidence and insight is needed to state this.
Moreover, the argument states that the university want to terminate the new procedure so that employment opportunities for students increase. This argument fails to take into account that there might be many other factors that recruiters believe that Alpha University students are better for their job roles than Omega University students. For example, Alpha University students might be performing better in interviews and might be having the capability to demonstrate their knowledge in person as well as they can do on paper. It is highly possible that students from Omega University are not able to demonstrate their knowledge during interviews and hence employers tend to believe that the students are incapable of securing these high grades.
Based on the above mentioned points, it is fair to conclude that more evidence is needed to evaluate if Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors for it's students to secure better jobs. If sufficient information regarding the process of evaluation, professors and students performance in job interviews is provided it will then be possible to conclude if termination of the new procedure will help the students in securing better employment or not.
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 511 350
No. of Characters: 2674 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.755 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.233 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.856 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 200 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 165 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 137 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 82 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.059 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.258 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.706 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.396 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.396 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.144 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, regarding, so, then, well, as to, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 55.5748502994 133% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2709.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 511.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30136986301 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89485869729 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.393346379648 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 875.7 705.55239521 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.6954801132 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.352941176 119.503703932 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.0588235294 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.468398049334 0.218282227539 215% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.178400085471 0.0743258471296 240% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108718463218 0.0701772020484 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301369188613 0.128457276422 235% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0949186471173 0.0628817314937 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.57 48.3550499002 67% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.9071856287 160% => 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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