There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment?
There is no deputing that the rise of evaluating students via exams instead of continual assessment is a current tendency. This essay will delineate its positive and negative aspects.
On the one hand, there are some considerable advantages to assessing students through exams. To commence with, the exams can evaluate students’ knowlegde that continual evaluation can not. For instance, in some school systems, they require a placement examination to determine the starting level for candicates. Without this exam, it is not possible to filter out eligible candidates from among thousands of aspirants. Subsequently, the questionnaires of the exams always involve entire study program. By doing the test, students have potential to check their knowledge as well as ability of memorizing that they have learn whole semester.
On the other hand, I believe that there are some drawbacks to testing by exams. First of all, it contributes to the increase of depression in teenagers. For example, some students always have a high result in class, with some invidual reasons, they can not finish the final test, resulting in feeling of disappointed. In addition to this, they have a tendency to compare their score with other friends. As a result, students can not boost their energy to study efficiently, hence they diminish their study productivity so the test can not assess totally their capabilities.
In conclusion, exams are helpful to assess the student’s level and to provide an Internationally recognizable certificate. At the same time, having a rigid system might not be a better way to evaluate the knowledge of students. In my opinion, schools should complement formal exams with continual assessment to reduce the stress level of students and to give them more opportunities to prove their knowledge.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 618, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'learned', 'learnt'.
Suggestion: learned; learnt
...as ability of memorizing that they have learn whole semester. On the other hand, I b...
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Line 3, column 93, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...backs to testing by exams. First of all, it contributes to the increase of depres...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, so, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34494773519 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98859661801 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585365853659 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 482.4 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8057107383 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.875 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.9375 7.06120827912 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.245903113988 0.244688304435 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0849063257935 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0917386688872 0.0667982634062 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171402805306 0.151304729494 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0702702387979 0.056905535591 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 618, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'learned', 'learnt'.
Suggestion: learned; learnt
...as ability of memorizing that they have learn whole semester. On the other hand, I b...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 93, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...backs to testing by exams. First of all, it contributes to the increase of depres...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, if, so, well, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 287.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34494773519 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11595363751 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98859661801 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585365853659 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 482.4 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.8057107383 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.875 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9375 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.9375 7.06120827912 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.245903113988 0.244688304435 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0849063257935 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0917386688872 0.0667982634062 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171402805306 0.151304729494 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0702702387979 0.056905535591 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
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: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.