Good teachers are a critical component of a good school. Teachers take on the daunting task being surrogate parents who are tasked with disciplining students when and teaching students to be functioning members of our society which requires an incredible amount of knowledge and patience. Over the past few years there is a growing fear among parents that the quality of schools is going down due to the apathy of teachers and that there is a need to rejuvenate schools through new policies. One such policy states that teachers should be paid based on a quantitative measurement of their students academic performance. On the surface this might seem like a good policy, but there are various issues associated with it.
Chief among the issues is that academic performance of students depends on various factors that are out of the control of teachers. There is a growing body of research that shows a positive correlation between various factors such as active involvement from parents in their children’s life, access to resources, two parent households, genetics and the overall academic performance of a student. Given that most of these factors cannot be controlled by teachers it would be unfair to judge them based on the grades of their students.
Another important factor to consider is that there is a possibility that such a system will lead to widespread corruption in the school system. While proponents of such policies might state these policies incentivize teachers to work harder and make sure their students understand the topics being taught, the flip side of this might be that the tests conducted will be made easier to make sure everybody can get good grades. This will lead to widespread grade inflation which in turn leads to dilution of the quality of students graduating.
Finally, it can be argued that the overall success of students, thereby teachers, does not solely depend on grades. There are many factors, team building skills, class participation, and discipline to name a few, that are critical in becoming a function member of society. These soft skills are difficult to quantify and the new policy is dis-incentivize teachers from helping students develop them.
Based on the aforementioned reasons, it can be seen that there is a stark difference between stated goals of the policy and the ground reality. Such short sighted policies will have a large impact of students’ development and should not be implemented.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, if, so, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2075.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 402.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16169154229 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83523713115 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524875621891 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 704.065955056 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.8223607337 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.6875 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.125 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.25 5.21951772744 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344231769484 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10445515327 0.0831039109588 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103485094071 0.0758088955206 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181403847898 0.150359130593 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.076451561123 0.0667264976115 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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