Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that
encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their
professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher
grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have
risen by 30 percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in
grades, believe that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately
reflect student achievement; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as
successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University.
To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should
terminate student evaluation of professors.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to
evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or
strengthen the argument.
Omega university had used student evaluation of professors to evaluate its professors’ effectiveness. Consequently, the overall grades of students raised by 30 percent and prospective employers prefer to hire graduate students of Alpha university because they believe that Omega’s graduate students are not as successful as Alpha’s. Therefore, the author of the argument claims that Omega university should stop the student evaluation of professors to guarantee its students’ future’s job. However, this conclusion is drawn from fallacious assumptions and the author needs to examine more pieces of evidence.
First of all, the author argues that since the time of implementation of the student evaluations, professor assign higher grades, and overall grade increased. Perhaps, during that period of time, students had encouraged to study harder or Omega university had offered grant for who could achieve higher grades, and as a result, the overall grades became higher and it was irrelevant to the student evaluation of professors. In this case, Omega university do not require to terminate the student evaluation, and the argument will be invalid.
Moreover, there is no accurate comparison between Omega university graduated students and Alpha university. The author must examine these two universities’ demographics, majors, and overall average grades. It’s possible that these two universities are not analogous. If the number of the total graduate students of Alpha university in much less than Omega university, then the chance of being hired by potential employers for Alpha graduate students are higher. Also, maybe Omega university has more art majors while Alpha university has more engineering majors. In this case, potential employers might look for engineering graduated students and apparently, Alpha university graduate students will be more successful to finding jobs. Therefore, without specific evidence about details of the two university, the author cannot reach to conclusion that the student evaluations procedure is not useful, and the argument will be unsound.
Another line of reasoning that the author used is that the student evaluation procedure is responsible for the difficulty that Omega university graduate students faced to fine jobs. If Omega university curriculum is based on more theoretical courses while Alpha university emphasizes on practical courses, then students who graduate from Alpha university are more capable in convincing employers to hire them due to their strong practical backgrounds. Consequently, the student evaluation of professors, in Omega university, would not be the reason for the difficulty to find jobs and the argument cannot hold water.
All in all, the original argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to lack of specific evidence. If the author is able to provide more pieces of evidence, perhaps in form of a systematic study, then he can claim that in Omega university, the student evaluation of professors should be terminated or continued in order to guarantee the students’ future’s jobs.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 467 350
No. of Characters: 2553 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.649 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.467 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.872 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 205 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 163 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 125 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 87 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.944 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.607 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.4 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.4 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.15 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 180, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...l grade increased. Perhaps, during that period of time, students had encouraged to study harde...
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Line 2, column 470, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'terminating'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: terminating
...s case, Omega university do not require to terminate the student evaluation, and the argumen...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 935, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eful, and the argument will be unsound. Another line of reasoning that the autho...
^^^
Line 5, column 374, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... guarantee the students’ future’s jobs.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, consequently, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, while, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2636.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 467.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.64453961456 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02440828465 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453961456103 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 858.6 705.55239521 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5121545091 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.736842105 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5789473684 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.63157894737 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.380371369491 0.218282227539 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146364555845 0.0743258471296 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0912067705087 0.0701772020484 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254265897757 0.128457276422 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0846904701846 0.0628817314937 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 14.3799401198 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.3550499002 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.73 12.5979740519 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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