Several years ago, Groveton College adopted an honor code, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated. Groveton's honor code replaced a system in which teachers closely monitored students. Under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the first year it was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Such evidence suggests that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's. This change is sure to result in a dramatic decline in cheating among college students.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation
Colleges should adopt honor codes to prevent students from cheating as suggested by the successful result from Groventen College. Nonetheless, the evidence provided by the user is still not convincing and inadequate.
The article claims that the reported cases of cheating have dropped dramatically from twenty-one cases to fourteen in five years. It seems that the quantity has been reduced a lot, nonetheless the author did not provide us the data from the second to the fourth year. For example, the author just cherry-picked the first year and the fifth year, yet in the other three years, the cases still remain as high as more than thirty cases, which obviously shows the result of the honor code is just cherry-picked data. Also, the author did not mention the base number of the statistical data. If the number of students dropped in the last five years, then the reported case will be deducted proportionally. Whether a method works or not is based on the rate of success rather than the sheer quantity.
The exam in college is mostly tough and time-consuming. Students have only scarce time to write their own paperworks, let alone act like a policeman in the classroom and recon for who is cheating during the exam.
Sometimes, out of the friendship or relationship, we will cease to report the misbehaviours from the others. The students who report someone cheating may be isolated or even bullied by their classmates. Compared to the benefit from honor code, the loss of friendship may be much worse. Hence, the decreased cheat cases may just be a selection or survivors bias.
Lastly, this mechanism is only tested at Groventon College. Nevertheless, we do not know what type Groventon College is. For instance, if Groventon College is a Church , God or private school, the school regulations may be more strict, and thus the honor code will work better. In contrast, for the normal college, the honor code may only become merely a formality, rather than the real restriction to the students’ honor and responsibility.
Since each college has a different composition of students and regulations, the honor code may not be compatible and applicable for all the colleges.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1771 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.865 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.696 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 118 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.177 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 142, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[7]
Message: The word 'someone' in subjunctive clause must be used with a base form of a verb: 'cheat'.
Suggestion: cheat
...others. The students who report someone cheating may be isolated or even bullied by thei...
^^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 168, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...stance, if Groventon College is a Church , God or private school, the school regul...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, lastly, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, still, then, thus, for example, for instance, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1834.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 364.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03846153846 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82492724222 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543956043956 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.2164005378 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5263157895 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1578947368 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245830260649 0.218282227539 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0685085874695 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0637991113139 0.0701772020484 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133242484991 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0245748194356 0.0628817314937 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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