Do you think formal written assessments in today's world to assess students’ performance is effective or not? Discuss your viewpoint on this and support your answer with examples.
Students are commonly assessed through written essay or report. This essay will discuss how academic writing can effectively indicate students’ learning outcomes and demonstrate their understanding on the study topic.
Coursework assessment in higher level education involves formal writing which is done either individually or in group. Formal writing involves a comprehensive working knowledge, a logical structure, a proper diction and an appropriate writing style. Assessing students through their writings helps evaluate a set of skills rather than just knowledge about the study topic. As a result, evaluation on students’ formal writing is an effective method to assess students’ outcomes.
Academic writing not just indicates the performance of students and their skills but also reflects their true understanding on the topic. Students acquire to gather information, analyse it and come up with a logical answer to the given question or topic. The level of accuracy and comprehension of the answer designates how well students understand the topic. For instance, at university level, it is common that no specific answer or solution exists to any given problem. It is important that report or essay presents the proposed solution to convince the marker who has an extensive knowledge on the topic. The writing must contain highly accurate information which is presented in a well – developed structure and supports the final solution. Hence, report writing assessment is a plausible method to evaluate students’ understanding.
To conclude, even though the method of assessing students through formal writing has been used for a long time, it is still an effective method to evaluate students’ learning outcomes. The assessment reflects both the learning outcomes and understanding of students.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, still, well, for instance, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 6.10837438424 49% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 8.36945812808 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 20.9802955665 52% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 31.9359605911 88% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.75862068966 243% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1563.0 1207.87684729 129% => OK
No of words: 273.0 242.827586207 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.72527472527 5.00649968141 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13421714277 2.71678728327 115% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 139.433497537 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527472527473 0.580463131201 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 482.4 379.143842365 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 5.0 1.56157635468 320% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.5024630542 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.2776744675 50.4703680194 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 104.2 104.977214359 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2 20.9669160288 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26666666667 7.25397266985 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250076931837 0.242375264174 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0990098941805 0.0925447433944 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0787954570444 0.071462118173 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179940390542 0.151781067708 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0290848245314 0.0609392437508 48% => 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: 14.7 12.6369458128 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 53.1260098522 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.95 11.5310837438 138% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.32886699507 110% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 55.0591133005 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.3980295567 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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