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 following argument is flawed for a number of reasons. Primarily the author states that the overall student grade averages have risen due to the professor evaluation system that was introduced fifteen years ago. Although the argument seems logical at first, the vagueness and the many assumptions made renders the argument to be misleading.
Not much light is shed upon the professor evaluation system which the author claims is the source of all evil. The nature of questions asked in the evaluation is not mentioned and is left to our imagination. The author also fails to mention the action taken on the teachers by the university administration based on the result of the evaluation.
The author states that the professor evaluation process that was implemented fifteen years ago is the main reason the student grade averages have risen by 30 percent which is very vague. Over the course of fifteen years, the quality of education may have improved drastically which could have resulted in the increase in student grade average. Better infrastructure and faculty have attracted brighter students is a plausible explanation for the increase in student grade average.
The author mentions that potential employers believe that the grade average at Omega University is inflated and do not accurately represent the achievements of the students due to which these potential employers do not prefer to recruit at Omega University. The sources of these arguments are not mentioned in the passage. Also, the comparison between Omega and Alpha Universities does not seem right since Alpha University could offer industry-oriented programs while Omega University could offer research-oriented programs.
In conclusion, the author fails to give any real evidence to convince the administration of Omega University to terminate teacher evaluation process.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 13 15
No. of Words: 288 350
No. of Characters: 1542 1500
No. of Different Words: 143 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.12 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.354 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.947 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 115 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.553 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.385 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.646 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1575.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 288.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46875 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99062764055 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.506944444444 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5480901189 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.153846154 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1538461538 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.53846153846 5.70786347227 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265864746532 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0865074083052 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718361450201 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134820374732 0.128457276422 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454139091662 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 48.3550499002 67% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.5979740519 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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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.