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.
The author of this arguments says that after starting student evaluation of teachers at Omega University the grades of students increased by an average of 30% and the graduates have been less successful at getting jobs than students at Alpha University. Therfore, student evaluation of teachers should stop. This argument assumes a lot of things and has a few errors in reasoning and incomplete data though.
Firstly, the argument mentions a change occurring fifteen years ago and does not mention any changes occuring recently. Were no other changes affecting employment rates of students made? Why did no one raise this problem when it started happening but now when a lot of time has passed? Fifteen years was enough time to terminate student evaluation of teachers if the problem lies there. Did students from ten years ago also faced this problem or do only the students now do? If they did not, it suggests some other reason for less success of graduates.
Secondly, the argument assumes that the only reason grades of students can have increased is because they were inflated by the teachers to get better evaluation. But the usual goal of evaluation is feedback and there is a distinct possibility that the grades increased due to the feedback received by teachers that lead them to teach in a better and more productive manner. This can also be the reason for grade inflation and supports the student evaluation of teachers.
Thirdly, it states that the graduates from Omega University have been less successful at getting jobs than graduates at Alpha University but it does not mention how the success of both Universities was measured and whether the Omega graduates before student evaluation were as successful as graduates from Alpha University. It also does not compare Omega graduates success today with their success from 15 years ago. Maybe, Omega graduates were less successful even before student evaluation of teachers compared to Alpha graduates and now, they are more successful compared to older Omega graduates.
Lastly, the article assumes that only the inflated grades are putting off the potential employers, since it is not mentioned if the employers themselves stated that, while it might be that they require something more than good grades like an internship or some projects. Maybe, the students at Omega University do not network or do not have anything more in their resume than a college grade while students at Alpha University may do internships, projects, research, etc.
Thus, it cannot be said that student evaluation of students should stop since it might actually be helping and the given data is insufficient and does not give the full picture on which we may base that conclusion.
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Essay evaluation report
Need to argue against the conclusion always. For this topic it is:
To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 448 350
No. of Characters: 2239 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.601 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.998 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.575 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.889 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.301 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.722 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.346 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.612 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 15, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
The author of this arguments says that after starting stud...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2294.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 448.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12053571429 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63209682069 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444196428571 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 714.6 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.1987974064 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.444444444 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8888888889 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72222222222 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23577488512 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0807039639483 0.0743258471296 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498431379922 0.0701772020484 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121833318672 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0293058065953 0.0628817314937 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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