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 author concludes that in order to enable the graduates of Omega University to secure better jobs, they should terminate the student evaluation of professors. However, the author makes this conclusion based on incomplete facts and his argument is rife with assumptions.
The author states that the faculty at Omega University have begun to assign higher grades to the students and the employers believe that grades of the students are inflated. Therefore, author is in favour of terminating student evaluation of professors. But, the author failed to analyse the reason why professors have started assigning more marks. It is possible that upon receiving the feedback from students, the professor modified their teaching methodologies for the better and it helped the students to get a better understanding of the topic being thought. As a result of which, the students scored higher marks and obtained better grades. Therefore, removal of such an evaluation process could be detrimental as the faculty won't get the valuable feedback.
The author makes a comparison to a nearby university named Alpha University. He looks into the fact that graduates from Alpha University have been more successful in obtaining jobs. However, he has failed to consider other differences between the two universities.
Perhaps, the students of Alpha University are in fact more scholar than the students of Omega University. The author hasn't even ascertain that whether any student evaluation of professor occurs in Alpha University or not. Therefore, his comparison is inadequate the author must conduct a proper survey to find out the reason why more graduates are securing jobs at Alpha University. Only, if he does so, he can prove that scraping out of the evaluation policy would help.
Furthermore, in this scenario, it could be the fault of the employers to assume that the grades at Omega University are inflated. Hence, the University might not be the one to be blamed. And, if this fact is true, removal of the evaluation and feedback policy could be of no help. In this situation, the administration and placement department of the Omega University should explain the employers the cause for increase in grades of the students.
Of course, for a university, it should be a primary concern to increase the number of students getting placed in each academic number. The author suggested removal of a previously implemented policy believing that it will increase the number of students getting placed. However, his argument was full of assumptions and without a finding a cogent reason for the decline in number of students getting jobs, his suggestion could be ineffective.
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Comments
e-rater score 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: 22 15
No. of Words: 431 350
No. of Characters: 2194 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.556 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.09 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.788 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 125 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.591 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.14 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.542 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...aculty wont get the valuable feedback. The author makes a comparison to a nearb...
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Line 6, column 118, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hasn't
...tudents of Omega University. The author hasnt even ascertain that whether any student...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, so, therefore, in fact, of course, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2255.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 429.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25641025641 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86979238754 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452214452214 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 718.2 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1847710341 57.8364921388 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.5 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.09090909091 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.254171033944 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0813163694366 0.0743258471296 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0756058007284 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127987133802 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0846094843323 0.0628817314937 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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