Do grades help students to learn?
In many schools, teachers evaluate students by their grades. Some people think it is unfair and one-sided to assess pupils by examinations and scores. In contrary, others disagree. As far as I am concerned, I am with the first group. Grades discourage students from studying for learning; perhaps it adds a lot of stress in their lives. Also, it does not reflect the real level of the students at the school. Following is a brief explanation of my perspective.
First of all, Children between age five to seventeen spend more than eight to ten hours daily at school institute. It is an essential for their teachers to encourage them to love their studying knowledge subjects which; mostly, hard and tough to absorb such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Science. If their advisors evaluate them according to their exams, they feel it there is no need for regular homework preparation or daily school participation. Take an example, my school. It was disappointing for me to study only for the final examination. In fact, our teachers taught us a technique of how to select the right answer; therefore, we study few days before the exam only to have higher grades. Consequently, most of the studying materials evaporated.
Secondly, grades add a lot of stress for students at the school. Especially when their parents and relatives ask their kids for their grades to be proud of them. In many cases, it encourages them for competition to have the best and the higher scores. But, those students do not have the same intelligence level. This situation like forcing everyone to wear the same size shoes. Pressurizing those kids with their studying material is painful. For example, when I was in high school, my parents; always, compared me to my cousin. They do not care how many hours I spent daily to prepare for each exam. The only thing they wanted it to be better than my cousin. At that time, I hated the school so much. It stressed me out. I could not enjoy the school environment. For me, studying was not for learning, it was for pain.
Last but not the least, undoubtedly, grades do not reflect the actual intelligence level of the student. Of course, most of the good score depend on student's working hard, and preparation. However, there are other factors which have an indirect effect on that score. Such as unexpected illness or out handed family issues that permit some student from attending the exam or from focusing on the day of the grades. Unfortunately, I struggled with this kind of situation when I was at my alma mater, at the date of the final examination of my Organic Chemistry subject. My grandmother passed away.I was sorrowful and crying most of the day. Therefore, I could not focus on the exam and got a very low score. I think it is unfair to evaluate students in this way.
Considering all above together, I do not believe grades is the best to learn. It discourages students from learning; it adds a lot of pressure in their lives, and it is not the right way to estimate the student's actual level.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: I
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'consequently', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'as for', 'for example', 'i think', 'in fact', 'kind of', 'of course', 'such as', 'first of all', 'in many cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21357615894 0.229887763892 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.150662251656 0.158761421928 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0811258278146 0.0866891130778 94% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0562913907285 0.046263068375 122% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0960264900662 0.0685040099705 140% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.114238410596 0.118717715034 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0331125827815 0.0351676179071 94% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.71066958584 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0314569536424 0.0309702414327 102% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0844370860927 0.0887237588012 95% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00331125827815 0.0209618222197 16% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0132450331126 0.0139019557991 95% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3038.0 2387.08602151 127% => OK
No of words: 529.0 408.028673835 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.74291115312 5.86048508987 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.48200974243 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.330812854442 0.338922669872 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.23629489603 0.251872472559 94% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.181474480151 0.174417080927 104% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.102079395085 0.112833075102 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71066958584 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 212.727598566 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491493383743 0.524397521467 94% => OK
Word variations: 58.4432488847 59.2087087015 99% => OK
How many sentences: 37.0 20.6684587814 179% => OK
Sentence length: 14.2972972973 20.5533526081 70% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.4297185217 48.84282405 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.1081081081 120.699889404 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.2972972973 20.5533526081 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.513513513514 0.644075263715 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.5376344086 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.54480286738 18% => OK
Readability: 37.9267869003 45.7405998639 83% => OK
Elegance: 1.1912568306 1.45489161554 82% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198677326257 0.300154397459 66% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0706685665011 0.103427244359 68% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0563437312604 0.0752933317313 75% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.385727141812 0.497263757937 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.146734162571 0.151897553556 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06258017198 0.114077575197 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668800702783 0.0781384742642 86% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.386639714682 0.336927656856 115% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0698088357085 0.067059652881 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155461940589 0.210909579961 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576950270744 0.0618886996521 93% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8870967742 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 3.86379928315 466% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.91756272401 203% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 8.42114695341 83% => OK
Negative topic words: 13.0 2.4623655914 528% => Less negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.75985663082 181% => OK
Total topic words: 25.0 13.6433691756 183% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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