Claim: Group assignments that students must work together to complete should replace a substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses.
Reason: It is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic and to achieve a common goal.
Students are taught in various ways across the world and there are several curricula and method existing in different countries. Among them lecture-based instruction is very common and students are required to do some group task almost in every education system, however the amount is small compared to lecture-based instruction. I firmly agree the significance of group work in a students learning life at the same time I believe that lecture-based instruction is equally important. Therefore, the amount of group assignments or tasks should be increased in proportion to lecture-based instruction.
First of all, lecture based instructions are equipped the students with some theoretical knowledge and to grasp the concept of any subject a student needs to do it practically. Here comes group assignments, in a group a student can implement what he or she have learned in class, at the same time they came to know each other’s view about that concept. Therefore, they are enabling themselves of sharing knowledge which is very essential and one of the main purposes of education. And indeed, this is a feature that a solely lecture-based instruction lacks while teaching the students.
Secondly, when a lecture is given it is not impossible that different student take the interpretation differently. For example, a teacher may imply something negative but a student can take that as positive. This types of misconception can only be removed by group task since every member of the group must come to a common point to accomplish their task. Therefore any vague explanation or any gap in learning can be overcome by group assignments. This type of misconception can hardly be overcome by traditional method since the students are often fear to share their own view with their instructors, especially in the third world countries where education system is full of loopholes and flaws.
Finally, as a group will be consists of different members, it is obvious that the views of the members will be different. As a result of that it is not impossible to come to a point of discord with peers. However, the aim of a group task is to remove this disagreement by analyzing the situation from different perspectives, which in turn would make a student more patient and would help to create harmony. This type of skill is necessary in a world marked by chaos and disorder. Therefore, when a student will go for a job or will start his or her own business, they will have the ability to solve this kind of problems, and it is also an aim of education.
To sum up, it can be assert that considering the significance of group task, it should be increased for the betterment and greater benefit of the students and society as well. However, that does not imply that the lecture-based instruction should be fully replaced, rather group task should be increased in proportion to lecture and the tasks should be based on the class lecture, otherwise it will not be fruitful.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 257, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
... a student can implement what he or she have learned in class, at the same time they...
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Line 2, column 586, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tion lacks while teaching the students. Secondly, when a lecture is given it is ...
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Line 3, column 357, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... common point to accomplish their task. Therefore any vague explanation or any gap in lea...
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Line 3, column 481, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[10]
Message: The adverb 'hardly' is usually put between 'be' and 'overcome'.
Suggestion: be hardly overcome
...gnments. This type of misconception can hardly be overcome by traditional method since the student...
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Line 4, column 122, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...views of the members will be different. As a result of that it is not impossible t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, well, while, for example, kind of, as a result, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2472.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96385542169 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98470858661 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465863453815 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 771.3 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5731782318 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.6 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8 5.21951772744 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261258303562 0.243740707755 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0876711435741 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616446700461 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161167469387 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0672440623927 0.0667264976115 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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