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.
These days, there is an ongoing debate between people about the written assessment methods to evaluate student grades. While it is possible to claim that the writing a formal piece of paper can be effective for a student, in my view the formal written work cannot reflect the student's true ability to perform tasks and the disadvantages in this type of system outweigh the benefits. In this essay, I shall explain my point of view by explaining both sides of the argument.
First of all, there are several reasons why I am against the formal writing tasks in academic studies. One of them is that student tends to focus just to complete the long writing task without any pure knowledge and understanding. Moreover, it can also be argued that the writing tasks do not improve analytical skills or practical knowledge. Similarly, it should also be taken into account that most of the students do not find any interest in writing a long piece of work without having a profound skill in their subject and therefore, it cannot portrait a true image of a student's abilities during the assessment.
On the other hand, those who argue for written assessments have a different point of view and say that it can actually be a good thing. Firstly, it is claimed that the long writing tasks force students to think deeply and research about the subject which gives them edge in the professional world to analyse the problems. Then, there are concerns about the writing and data management skills which can be assessed by such tasks.
In conclusion, there are strong arguments on both sides of the case.However, my personal opinion is that written assessment are good but lacks in essence of an assessment which can truly judge a candidate on merit.
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actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, similarly, so, then, therefore, while, in conclusion, first of all, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.5418719212 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 6.10837438424 147% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 5.94088669951 185% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 20.9802955665 119% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 31.9359605911 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1447.0 1207.87684729 120% => OK
No of words: 299.0 242.827586207 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83946488294 5.00649968141 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59144454636 2.71678728327 95% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 139.433497537 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538461538462 0.580463131201 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 443.7 379.143842365 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.6157635468 173% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.5024630542 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.2416329029 50.4703680194 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.545454545 104.977214359 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1818181818 20.9669160288 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.2727272727 7.25397266985 197% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 6.9802955665 43% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168322603883 0.242375264174 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.065171830478 0.0925447433944 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0394675789851 0.071462118173 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109356698864 0.151781067708 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0408008516038 0.0609392437508 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 12.6369458128 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.1260098522 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.54236453202 47% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 10.9458128079 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 11.5310837438 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32886699507 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 55.0591133005 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.94827586207 136% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.3980295567 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.5123152709 124% => 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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