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.
The controversial topic with respect to education never fails to attract public attention. There has been a heated debate on whether it is correct to assess the student's learning by the written exam. As far as I am concerned, I tend to be an advocate regarding this issue.
It is evidently reasonable for me to believe that such an approach is of little value due to the fact that it is not capable of assessing the students in a comprehensive way. This is because the written assessment mainly focuses on academic knowledge instead of practical skills because these abilities cannot be fully reflected in exam papers. To illustrate this, teamwork skill is a convincing example. As a result, students tend not to be well-rounded and the importance of academic performance will be overvalued.
In contrast, it is commonly believed as a fact that this method is fair and justified because everyone shares the same marking criteria and standardized exam condition. Nevertheless, this argument does not hold water. It should be pointed out that formal assessments tend to demotivate students and result in a loss of passion.
That is to say, the grading and ranking create an intense study environment because they will cause fierce competition and heavy pressure from parents and school.
In a nutshell, due to the mentioned reasons, we may safely reach the conclusion that written exams are incompetent to assess students’ performance. Despite the fact that this practice is fair and measurable, it is not comprehensive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, nevertheless, regarding, so, well, in contrast, as a result, with respect to, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.5418719212 171% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 6.10837438424 82% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 20.9802955665 119% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 31.9359605911 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.75862068966 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1287.0 1207.87684729 107% => OK
No of words: 249.0 242.827586207 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1686746988 5.00649968141 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 3.92707691288 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04668174262 2.71678728327 112% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 139.433497537 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598393574297 0.580463131201 103% => OK
syllable_count: 401.4 379.143842365 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.6157635468 195% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9014282324 50.4703680194 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.0 104.977214359 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1538461538 20.9669160288 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.76923076923 7.25397266985 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.12807881773 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 6.9802955665 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191132133812 0.242375264174 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0646789784158 0.0925447433944 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.047567226335 0.071462118173 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100989684957 0.151781067708 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0540068546999 0.0609392437508 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 12.6369458128 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.1260098522 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.9458128079 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 11.5310837438 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.65 8.32886699507 116% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 55.0591133005 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.5123152709 95% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.5555555556 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 68.0 Out of 90
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