The importance of assessing students by written examinations, which was always debatable, has now become more controversial. The substantial influence of judging students’ performance through written examinations has sparked the controversy over the potential impact of this trend on the education system in recent years. It can be said that there are both benefits and drawback of written exams. This essay will elaborate on how written examinations can be a fair method of checking students’ abilities and how it will hinder true capabilities of students and thus will lead to a reasoned conclusion.
At the outset, there are numerous reasons why the assessment of students through written examinations is beneficial, but the most conspicuous one stems from the fact that these types of pedagogies are traditionally proven to be successful in terms of checking students’ knowledge and skills under a similar atmosphere. As an illustration, in a mathematical written examination, every student has to solve problems under the same time constraints and pressure so that it measures who is the most capable of achieving the highest grades. Thus, written examinations can be reasonable to check individual performance.
Nevertheless, there remain some drawbacks, which can certainly overwhelm the potential impact of written examinations, but the most alarming one is rooted in the fact that there are external factors that can lead students underperforming on the exam day. For example, a test taker might be in different circumstances such as stress, illness or a problem at home. Moreover, their performance will not be to their level of knowledge and skills due to these factors, which can be detrimental to their future pursuits.
To conclude, the impact of written examinations on students is prominent, although the way it may reduce the students’ performance should be well-handled.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, thus, well, as to, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.5418719212 161% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 6.10837438424 213% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 8.36945812808 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 20.9802955665 76% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 31.9359605911 122% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 5.75862068966 174% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1627.0 1207.87684729 135% => OK
No of words: 293.0 242.827586207 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55290102389 5.00649968141 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 3.92707691288 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.36070563898 2.71678728327 124% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 139.433497537 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549488054608 0.580463131201 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 495.9 379.143842365 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.5024630542 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.5083061591 50.4703680194 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.909090909 104.977214359 141% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6363636364 20.9669160288 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.36363636364 7.25397266985 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
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: 0.208455972933 0.242375264174 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0883850315418 0.0925447433944 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562504278256 0.071462118173 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134655911169 0.151781067708 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04475452687 0.0609392437508 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 12.6369458128 142% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 53.1260098522 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 10.9458128079 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.21 11.5310837438 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.32886699507 113% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 55.0591133005 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.94827586207 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.3980295567 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.5123152709 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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