The current trend in education is to move away from traditional exams and instead have continuous assessment over the school year.
What do you think of this trend?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge
or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
As stated by the prompt, the current trend in the educational system is to adopt a more holistic way of evaluating a student's performance by assessing one's academic improvement over the whole year rather than conducting traditional exams. I strongly advocate this trend in the current educational field. This essay deals with several reasons why continuous assesement is necessary in the present era.
There are two reasons why I champion this trend and they are as follows: Firstly, traditional exams are conducted semi-annually which means that the students are being monitored twice a year as a result of which students tend to get lethargic with regards to their studies and procrastinate their studies. Hence, they end up burning the midnight lamps and by heart their subjects to secure a good score which results in a lack of in-depth knowledge of the subject. By hearting the subjects, even a weak student ends up securing good grades which leads to falsely categorizing that student as intelligent. For instance, my school followed the traditional semi-annual exams due to which a majority of my classmates never really bothered to study the basics of the subject to gain an insight into the topic that they were studying. Instead, they chose to study a day before the exams and they succeeded in obtaining a high score. However, this had a harsh impact on their placements as they could not perform well during their job interview. This would have not been the case if they were assessed on a regular basis.
Secondly, continuous assessment over the entire school period enables in closely monitoring of the academic performance of students which provides them an insight into their areas of weakness. Furthermore, this also enables a student to easily identify the areas of their interest and can successfully pursue their career in that particular field.
In conclusion, continuous assessment enables students to improve their in-depth knowledge on a topic whereas traditional exams sometimes promote lethargy.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, really, second, secondly, so, well, whereas, for instance, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1733.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31595092025 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8299586772 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555214723926 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 67.4278926711 49.4020404114 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.307692308 106.682146367 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0769230769 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7692307692 7.06120827912 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171853596862 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713604608532 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0517660747056 0.0667982634062 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120379200624 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0577741200354 0.056905535591 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 9.78957915832 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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