Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student's performance. Continual assessment such as coursework and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this.
The examination system has been a controversial issue among all academic societies. While many people think progressive assessment is the only way to gain the exact results, others hold an opponent view and support formal examination. This essay will examine both sides by providing some academic evidences before logical concluding.
On the one hand, there are several reasons why some people support continual assessing. First and foremost, they tend to believe that student’s evaluation plays a pivotal role in their future career and development. Secondly, they use an essential valid logic to say that traditional system could lead to increasing anxiety in elementary school student and they could not show their real ability and best output in constrained exam. According to academic research conducted by Tokyo Medical University, those children below 10 who participated in written exam research, usually faced with confusion and stress more than other classmate who involved in continual assessment. Furthermore, a single written examination may not cover all their talent and skills in a strict time.
On the other hand, progressive assessment may have some negative aspect and usual testing system could provide equal opportunity to every student to show their real caliber. In addition, they have the same amount of time and resources, and it could help teachers to filter hard workers eventually. Besides, all examination papers were provided under supervision of a reliable invigilator on the institute. From my own experience, it could be encouraging when you compared with others.
To recapitulate, I pen down saying that, although some people support the idea of progressive evaluation instead of formal examination, I inclined to believe that traditional system still could be beneficial to show the real grasping power of every student equally and fairly. However, the combination of both methods could be useful too.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, furthermore, however, may, second, secondly, so, still, while, in addition, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.5418719212 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 6.10837438424 164% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 8.36945812808 131% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 20.9802955665 95% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.75862068966 243% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1654.0 1207.87684729 137% => OK
No of words: 299.0 242.827586207 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53177257525 5.00649968141 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90696446294 2.71678728327 107% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 139.433497537 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.645484949833 0.580463131201 111% => OK
syllable_count: 527.4 379.143842365 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.6157635468 173% => OK
Article: 3.0 1.56157635468 192% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.3829066637 50.4703680194 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.142857143 104.977214359 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3571428571 20.9669160288 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.78571428571 7.25397266985 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 6.9802955665 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134156440172 0.242375264174 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0424173696609 0.0925447433944 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438684781557 0.071462118173 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0831391585916 0.151781067708 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0560893497934 0.0609392437508 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 12.6369458128 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 53.1260098522 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.9458128079 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.79 11.5310837438 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.75 8.32886699507 117% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 55.0591133005 174% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.5123152709 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.5555555556 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 77.0 Out of 90
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