Some people say that in all level of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills.
There is a contention in circulation that students’ schedules in the academic years are unbalanced between acquiring the theoretical knowledge and practical abilities. This essay completely agrees with this statement because there is a limited fund in practical education and the rising standard in paper-based tests.
The primary reason why there is a theory-biased education is that in some developing countries, the government pays a little attention to invest in laboratory facilities. In fact, in some underprivileged countries, such as South Africa, the cramped government investment is used to improve the populace’s living conditions instead of training skilled pedagogical trainers and investing in practical education. This inevitably leads to outdated laboratories and restricted pragmatic practice, which hinders students’ curiosity and research abilities. For example, although Vietnam is well-known for its talented students, achieving high academic results in the International Olympics, it still has not had any break-through inventions due to lack of skilled practical experiences.
Another reason why practical skills are neglected is that factual learning is over-emphasised. In this era of standardized tests, many governments tend to introduce novel examinations, which are highlighted to test the factual knowledge, to measure students’ progress. This eventually makes students put significant efforts on acquiring facts to have high academic results, causing a reduction in emphasis on skills. For instance, in my country, students neglect and undermine scientific facts from experiments in favour of learning these from textbooks, which is entirely due to the importance placed on scientific examinations.
In conclusion, I strongly agree that there is an emphasis on learning facts in academical education because of limited investment and a rising of standardized tests.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, still, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 7.85571142285 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1656.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 272.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.08823529412 5.12529762239 119% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.45540516105 2.80592935109 123% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.591911764706 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 510.3 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4407535223 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.545454545 106.682146367 141% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7272727273 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.18181818182 7.06120827912 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14403120796 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.05496830712 0.084324248473 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416259114999 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0847464295571 0.151304729494 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322473125835 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.6 13.0946893788 150% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 21.74 50.2224549098 43% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.3001002004 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 18.34 12.4159519038 148% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.52 8.58950901804 122% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 9.78957915832 174% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.7795591182 158% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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