Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Facts and concepts are both basic aspects of learning, teaching and assessment process. Concepts are that broad and generalized ideas that should be understood, while facts are usually detailed information that are memorized. I strongly support the idea that it is more suitable for student comprehend ideas and concepts than just facts. I feel this way for the following reasons.
Firstly, the learning approach should be based first in the learning and comprehension of concepts and then, after this process had occurred, should be started the memorizing process of the facts. Otherwise the students are not able to perform this memorization task. Once facts should be interpreted and only make sense after previous conceptual knowledge is known.
Secondly, facts are easily forgotten when not practiced on a regular basis since their learning process is very quick. It is known that this learning and teaching process is performed by repetition and memorization. On the other hand, concepts or ideas are based on gradual learning process which makes its forgetfulness slower and more difficult to happen when compared to the previous one.
Finally, students that only know facts and do not known how to think, link and make connections of broad conceptual ideas, usually they are not able to answer integrative questions or describe interactions between different subjects and even related ones. Furthermore, they can not organize the previous memorized fact into a broader category and then link information all together.
To sum up, I strongly believe that understand concepts is more important for students than just knowing facts. This is because facts only make sense if students have previous conceptual knowledge about the topic.
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- Integrated Task Dowsing 3
- Dowsing is the millennia old practice of finding hidden things The most well known activity of dowsing involves the use of a device such as a forked stick to locate underground water To this end the dowser walks slowly back and forth over an area of gr 80
- Easter Island 90
- Some parents forbid young children from owning smartphones (cell phones with Internet access), while others disagree and believe that they are important tools for keeping in touch. Which point of view do you think is better, and why? 73
- Summarise the points made in the lecture. Be sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage. 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 198, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Otherwise,
...ed the memorizing process of the facts. Otherwise the students are not able to perform th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, while, i feel, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 43.0788530466 49% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 52.1666666667 44% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1481.0 1977.66487455 75% => OK
No of words: 273.0 407.700716846 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42490842491 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.48103885553 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74483898847 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 212.727598566 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542124542125 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 438.3 618.680645161 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => 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: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.4431665166 48.9658058833 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.785714286 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07142857143 5.45110844103 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285291625708 0.236089414692 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104971496398 0.076458572812 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0894433437497 0.0737576698707 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167731448459 0.150856017488 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102725503095 0.0645574589148 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 11.7677419355 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 10.9000537634 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 86.8835125448 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.