Many people believe that formal pen and paper examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement.
Discuss this view and give your own opinion.
Students are being assessed by using traditional written tests for many decades. Many people claim that it is not an appropriate way to judge the caliber of children. In my opinion, written assessments are an integral aspect to measure the abilities of students but they should be incorporated with some additional tools to make the assessment comprehensive.
Those who are against the formal examination system claim that this cannot be considered as a precise method of evaluation. Firstly, exams put lot of stress on children and many children who otherwise perform well are not able to achieve good results in papers because of the pressure. Also, some sensitive students commit suicide if they fail to meet the conditions set by their parents. Secondly, this approach promotes rote learning among students, to state it, pupils study near the tests for the sake of getting pass marks and hardly have any practical knowledge about the subject. Last but not the least, one major drawback is uncertain circumstances, for example, a child who is very intelligent may get ill during exams hence, his performance will obviously get down.
Despite of aforementioned points, conventional written tests are considered reliable to understand capability of students, primarily it becomes easy for teachers to identify children as per their performance. On the other side, random tests conducted in a classroom situation includes one or two chapters and almost everybody scores good marks in those. Whereas, examination enables the pupils to work under stressful situations and which further assist them in the later stages of life. However, some multiple techniques such as quizzes, MCQ's and debates, are very helpful to enhance and improve child's knowledge to judge the knowledge in a normal classroom atmosphere. For example, certain percentage of activities conducted in class is included in summative examinations.
In conclusion, traditional tests are an ideal way to check the academic performance of children. Involving some other activities will definitely improve the results and reduce the burden on children
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, whereas, for example, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1791.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42727272727 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91109306102 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615151515152 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 565.2 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3817165789 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.4 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.26666666667 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0965804756035 0.244688304435 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0327847397832 0.084324248473 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0431300691962 0.0667982634062 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0544804696075 0.151304729494 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0507126830152 0.056905535591 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 78.4519038076 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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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.