Educators should base their assessment of students' learning not on students' grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
In the present day, we live in a democratic society, where every one has equal rights to express their feeling and ideas. Education is one of the imperative factors for a society, to improve. The main purpose of a teacher is to prepare their student for the future world, thus a teacher has to be stringent about their assessment of student’s performance. The above prompt sets about that educators should focus on the students’ ability to explain the ideas and concepts, instead of the students’ grasp of facts. While, I concede the fact that a student’s grasp of fact is an indispensable factor, in my opinion, I mostly agree with the above prompt for three reasons.
To begin, to improve in life people need to express their ideas to other people, otherwise, if other people do not comprehend an idea then, it is not viable to determine the efficacy of the idea, no matter how much the idea is fruitful. A teacher should focus on a student’s explaining ability, otherwise, it will be difficult for a student to progress in the future. For example, if a student is erudite in mathematics and has a decent gasp of knowledge of the subject, but is not comfortable expressing his ideas and concepts. In that case, it will be very difficult to prosper in life, since no matter how innovative the idea is, one should be able to express the concepts of the idea, otherwise, the people will not understand the idea and it will be very difficult to assess the student, whether he knows or not. The above example illustrates that teachers need to be more careful about assessing the student. To be effective in an idea, one should be able to express his innovative ideas in front of other people, in other words, a detailed gasp of knowledge is useless if, it can not be expressed clearly.
Furthermore, there are some cases that without expressing properly one’s ability can not be assessed. The student should be able to explain any idea if he has a fair grasp of knowledge. In other words, if, a student can understand any topic he should be able to express the concepts and ideas relating to the topic more carefully. For example, if a student is good at playing piano, she should be able to express her ability through playing the piano. Without expressing the ability one cannot judge her ability. This example shows that expressing quality is necessary in most cases for prosperity. If one can not express her feeling properly, her skill may be wasted and her talent will be lost in the future. Thus the teacher should emphasize and focus on the students’ ability to express their concepts, ideas, and tends. Thus one can say if he was able to understand a topic more clearly, he/she should be able to express his concepts more coherently.
However, sometimes a student has gasp knowledge but lacks the ability to express, on the other side a student may not have the proper gasp and concepts of the subject but he is deft in order to express concepts. In that case, assessing a student only on the basis of expressing ability is not a good idea. For example, most of the schools in India follow the same curriculum, and they assess their students through final examinations, whose most of the questions are from the same books that they provide in the curriculum and the answers are given in the books. In that case, one can not assess a student’s grasp of knowledge based on the ability to express it. Maybe a student is know all the answers but does not have good writing skills and another student, does not have a grasp of concepts but he can write the answers more clearly, then one cannot assess a student’s performance. Thus focusing only able to expression may not be much of a good idea.
Despite these reasons giving importance to a grasp of students’ concepts does have its merit such as a student will be more focused on grasping concepts rather than only scoring but such advantages are overshadowed by the potential disadvantages which are more severe in nature. So educators should base their assessment of students' learning not on students' grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...fair grasp of knowledge. In other words, if, a student can understand any topic h...
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Suggestion: Thus,
... her talent will be lost in the future. Thus the teacher should emphasize and focus ...
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Suggestion: Thus,
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Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'known'.
Suggestion: known
...ility to express it. Maybe a student is know all the answers but does not have good ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, thus, while, as to, for example, such as, in most cases, in my opinion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.4196629213 242% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 98.0 58.6224719101 167% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3458.0 2235.4752809 155% => OK
No of words: 731.0 442.535393258 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73050615595 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.19971265256 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6435226666 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.363885088919 0.4932671777 74% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1094.4 704.065955056 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 16.0 4.38483146067 365% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.7029137834 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.5 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.1071428571 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305467873396 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11187332603 0.0831039109588 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.099448282981 0.0758088955206 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225270862652 0.150359130593 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0948966318612 0.0667264976115 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.45 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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