Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most co

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Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

Academic performance of students signifies the characteristics of an institution and as research on education barrier, conducted in 2012 covered major institutions of USA, concluded that institutes that are ranked above others charge higher fees, corollary is that academic performance should also be consider for devising the financial compensation of teachers. It is important for the society to benchmark the outcome of students’ achievements for determining the salary structure of teachers as it is followed in other professions: Marketing and Sales, in order to bring result based management system. While, there are very few reservations concerning the academic achievements of students should be reflected in their teachers’ salaries, there are reasons to believe that it may not lead to desired results in all situations. Since teaching is considered a sacred profession because it involves moral and intellectual upliftment of students, therefore, its outcome should not be linked to their compensation.

However, true it may be the case that teaching is a profession that is set aside for enlightenment of students who are expected to work towards prosperity along with their inherent interests and skills, the method of linking their salaries with the students’ achievements can make this process of enlightenment more conducive. In today’s commercial environment where everything is commoditised, financial compensation holds an inherent motivation factor that drives every individual to work and achieve more. Therefore, teachers would be encouraged to devise new and innovative methods and technologies to impart necessary skills into students’ mind in order to increase their achievements. For example, the research conducted by behavioural scientists in 2016, covered professions such as medical, advocacy and teaching, concluded that professions that designed for non-commercial purposes are now moving towards commercial interests due to the change in environment. Therefore, study highlighted that compensation in these professions, especially of teachers, should be linked to the outcome, in terms of achievements of students in order to achieve higher results. Therefore, students’ achievements can persuade teachers to enhance the methods of teaching.

However, one such reason that supports the idea that academic achievement of students would work negatively towards the compensation of teachers is that it may lead to manipulation of academic results. In an environment where everything has a price, it would lead to a situation where teachers would likely to manipulate or inflate the performance of students in order to gain financially and therefore, they would focus not on students’ learning or upliftment but rather on manipulating the results either by devising very easy assessment for students or prejudiced marking of student’s papers. For example, the study conducted by the group of colleges in 2018 in India, covered both private and public institutions, has concluded that though the academic achievements of students of private institutions are higher than that of public institutions, they fared poorly while writing a common aptitude exam. The study concluded that it was the result of monetary incentives given to the teachers of private institutions that inflated their performance without any real substance. Therefore, in order to serve the students’ need, it is advisable not to link the salaries of teachers with their outcomes.

Another reason that buttresses the thought that salaries of teacher should be independent of students’ achievements is that diversity among students may lead to bias adjustment of their salaries. The students in a class are diverse in terms of their interests, skills and talents, therefore, not all of them may not be focussed towards higher academic grades. In such a situation emoluments of a teacher may be at lower side though he or she may be competent or the best teacher in the school. For example, the research conducted by Association of Schools in 2017, covered 120 schools in India to study the impact of different teaching methods on students, has concluded that schools should not be graded solely on the basis of academic achievements since people who are eminent in their respective fields were from those schools where students were graded on extra academic achievements as well. Therefore, outcome of students’ only academic achievements may not reflect the qualities of teachers.

While concluding, as it can be seen from above paragraphs, although commercial environment nudges institutions to link the financial compensation of teachers to the students’ achievement in order to urge them to employ new methods of teaching, it may likely to manipulation of academic results of students and learning of students that is focussed only on marks. Moreover, the diversity exists among students hinders the estimation of teachers’ efforts on students’ achievements. Therefore, a sacred profession of teaching should not be linked untenably to students’ marks.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, well, while, for example, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 28.0 11.3162921348 247% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 126.0 58.6224719101 215% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 34.0 12.9106741573 263% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4384.0 2235.4752809 196% => OK
No of words: 767.0 442.535393258 173% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.71577574967 5.05705443957 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.2625815764 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.3263870459 2.79657885939 119% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.398956975228 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1352.7 704.065955056 192% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 23.0359550562 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 95.9515079165 60.3974514979 159% => OK
Chars per sentence: 190.608695652 118.986275619 160% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.347826087 23.4991977007 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.78260869565 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.187202768591 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0788071523916 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0393846080552 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13514367138 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0241140018571 0.0667264976115 36% => 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: 22.2 14.1392134831 157% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 21.06 48.8420337079 43% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 14.6 7.92365168539 184% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 18.5 12.1743820225 152% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.49 12.1639044944 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 181.0 100.480337079 180% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 22.0 11.8971910112 185% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.2143820225 136% => OK
text_standard: 22.0 11.7820224719 187% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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