Some university teachers prefer to record their lectures in advance so that students can familiarize themselves with the material before class. Then teachers can use the class time to help students to practice what they learned while watching or listening. Do you think this method of watching or listening before class is an effective way for students to learn？
Nowadays, teachers tend to figure out any possible methods when it comes to having classes for the betterment of their students. Some teachers even come up with the idea to record lectures before the class in order to let students become familiar with the material, and thus they can focus on practicing in class. This approach has gained some applaud to a certain extent since it can boost their effectiveness in study, and I am a supporter of it for the following reasons.
First and foremost, watching the lecture video in advance enables students have a comprehensive view towards the context, facilitating them to ask more questions in class. As is known to all, students get improved asking various questions, which is definitely a symbol of critical thinking. Nevertheless, if they just learned some knowledge in class, there is no time for them to produce questions. For instance, my brother Jackson is not a clever student in high school, and it takes him a long time to carefully figure out a geometrical conception in class. Luckily, after his math teacher started giving them the lecture video before class, he had sufficient time to think through every new concept, which made him have a clear perspective of his question and he could ask his teacher immediately.
Another point worth mentioning is that students can be more effective since they can save time by only practicing in class, leaving the task receiving new knowledge at home. There is no doubt that some students benefit greatly from learning before the class, as they save large amounts of time for in-class time. As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect, students doing exercises around their teacher can be more effective than doing at home. It is not hard to imagine how ineffective it will be if a student does homework while surfing the internet and chatting with their friends. However, he will concentrate on practicing provided that he is in the classroom with his teacher around. There is no wonder he will have higher study efficiency.
Admittedly, some students prefer learning in class to watching their teacher’s face on a computer screen due to their fixed habit above ten years. Nonetheless, considering the benefits of students learning in advance, it would not hurt for teachers preparing classes in that way for the sake of students’ overall effectiveness.
To put it into a nutshell, teachers are well-advised to record the lecture before class because it can save students’ precious time for more questions and practice in class by them trying to understand the material in advance.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, thus, well, while, for instance, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2175.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 431.0 407.700716846 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0464037123 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74432158698 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533642691415 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 660.6 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.5964507619 48.9658058833 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.941176471 100.406767564 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3529411765 20.6045352989 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41176470588 5.45110844103 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.496378269398 0.236089414692 210% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.16477458029 0.076458572812 216% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102017491588 0.0737576698707 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.304800869173 0.150856017488 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0416217421272 0.0645574589148 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 86.8835125448 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 Out of 30
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