Many people believe that formal “pen and paper” examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement. Discuss this view and give your own opinion.
In many countries, many students are evaluated their academic performance through pen and paper examinations. these exams may be efficient and economic ways to analyze student’s skills and their abilities because they are easily measured by number and can be compared with others. however, I do not believe this is the best way to assess educational achievement of students.
Firstly, it is difficult to measure academic achievement of overall subjects through exam. there are some subjects which focus on opinions and emotions of each students. The example can be an art and music class. The exam will evaluate these subjects based on what the students know about them, but their actual performances or achievements cannot be measured fairly through exam. From my experience, one of my friends on high school was good at memorizing the information of the drawings. he memorized who drew it, when it was drew, and which museum is keeping it. however, he did not really appreciate them. Even though he got a good mark on art, he does not enjoy it after graduating high school. Therefore, I think there are some subjects which are difficult to be measured through an exam.
Secondly, activities or exercises can be better tools for teachers to understand student’s individual goal. If teachers keep an eye on each student through activities and exercise, they would understand students better than through paper exam. Also, teachers can find out each student’s goal and what they are doing to achieve them. this can be measured through activities and exercises.
In conclusion, I believe that the exam is not the best way to assess academic achievement of students due to the limited assessment of some subject and I’m sure that activities or exercises should be taken into consideration for student’s assessment.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, i think, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1550.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23648648649 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94466715364 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550675675676 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 5.43587174349 184% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.3651010333 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.1764705882 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4117647059 20.7667163134 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126121913028 0.244688304435 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0456738398911 0.084324248473 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0623792689394 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110225787139 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0757921217265 0.056905535591 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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