Many people believe that formal pen and paper examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement What is your view of examination

People have differing views with regard to the question of how to evaluate educational achievements better in recent days. In my view, both formal “pen and paper” exams and a range of other measures can be applied together to promote assessing students’ result.

On the one hand, it is clear that formal “pen and paper” tests can certainly encourage students to be more studious. This is because those examinations require scholars to spend much time to study books and references, meaning that they will have significant academic knowledge after graduating. Moreover, by doing writing practices, students have to learn how to arrange their ideas in logical orders. This leads to the gradual improvement in their logical thinking which is necessary to have a successful career in the workplace.

On the other hand, I believe that educational assessment should be changed to suit modern society. Firstly, examining candidates would try to use online tests to examine candidates, especially in distance training. As a result, these universities will have more students and save more money than when they perform “pen and paper” examinations in the previous viewpoint. For example, in order to hold a final test by using the internet, the university just needs a program to send and control student’s exams and do not need more teacher to manage and mark the tests. Secondly, practical tests are very useful for all students in many aspects of work and life, which means students would have a more practical approach to their job. Because companies nowadays tend to hire workers who have solid practical experience. For- instance, in order to be a hotel manager, one is required to finish his training courses, which are not in “pen and paper” exams.

In conclusion, although “pen and paper” tests can have positive impacts on assessing education achievement, I believe that the alternative methods should be applied to adapt to the modern world.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 733, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” 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.
...a more practical approach to their job. Because companies nowadays tend to hire workers...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, for example, in conclusion, as a result, in my view, with regard to, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1662.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 317.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2429022082 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76097151515 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583596214511 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 511.2 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.4707062857 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.714285714 106.682146367 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6428571429 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.85714285714 7.06120827912 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239974737882 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0801097259926 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650034926101 0.0667982634062 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158856501694 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0550300727954 0.056905535591 97% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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