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.
The presented argument states that Omega university students grades are higher due teaching evaluations program for professors in the university. Due to which students are not successful in getting jobs and it is recommended to terminate this program to secure graduates jobs. However, in order to evaluate this argument, we need to have a significant amount of additional evidence. The argument could end up being much weaker than it seems, or it might actually be quite valid. In order to make this determination, let's analyze argument.
Firstly in the argument, it is not very cogent that increase in students grades is only due to teacher evaluation program. Argument states that increase in grades is from the time when evaluation program implemented. Author just assumes that teachers give bribe of good grades to the students, so that they can get good evaluation from students. There are many other possibilities in which students grades improve, it is could happen that students evaluation program also implemented by university, same as teacher evaluation program and students started doing more hard work to get good feedback from teachers or increase in grades is observed only in particular group of students for example who are about to graduate, not in students who are in first or second year of college. In this case, more information is required before reaching on conclusion that raise in grades is only due to teacher evaluation program.
Argument also states that potential employers think that grades doesn't reflect actual achievement. May only one employer thinks this, not all. Author doesn't provide any data of employer's concern about grades for example, how many employer are saying the same, are they know about this evaluation program? It is possible that employer took interview or any eligibility test of students and they failed to perform good and employer thought that students couldn't perform despite of good grades they have, it means grades are not true criteria of students selections for job.
In the argument, the omega university is compared with alpha university, by stating that alpha university students are successful in getting jobs. Author didn't provide any information how both universities are compared, do they have same majors, or similar IQ level students or are both universities are doing equal efforts to attract employers to their university. The Alpha might have in internship program to train students for prospective jobs and omega not. This case can weaken the argument, if comes true.
Clearly, then, we need to have additional evidence in order to get a more complete
understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of argument. Merely terminating professor evaluation program without doing further analysis may not help students to get jobs.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, so, then, for example, in particular
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2369.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 447.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29977628635 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75709257902 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463087248322 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 740.7 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.0828419836 57.8364921388 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.45 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.35 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198681047956 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0676720892523 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0596267194321 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0996567137842 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0455354150425 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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