Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
It is known that both concepts and facts are basic parts of learning, teaching and assessment process. They are correlated but concepts are understandable ideas while facts are usually memorized information. I strongly agree that it is more suitable that students learn concepts than just facts.
Learning concepts is a longer and maybe a life-longer process. It is also a slow process because to understand a concept we have to gather information, make connections, create mental maps or graphs and correlate all these together. For this reason we are able to keep this idea for a long time or even the entire life, since its forgetfulness is hard to happen. When we understand an idea or concept we create in our mind a network of information, examples, images, feelings that are all interconnected to create the understanding of that concept. It is not just a fact or information, it is a whole process that makes sense in our mind.
Memorizing facts, on the other hand, is a faster process that is usually made by repetition. Maybe due to this reason, it is easily forgotten. For example, Streptoccoccus Mutans cause tooth decay is a fact that maybe just dentist should know and comprehend why. If I state this fact for one hundred people and after two hours I ask them which bacteria cause tooth decay, probably less than ten people will remember this fact. However, when dentists or dental hygienists teach the concept that involve tooth decay and why brushing teeth is important and avoid this process by remineralizing the acidic environment created by bacteria, patients will seldom forget the idea and will be motivated to follow the instructions.
Similarly, this may happen with students. Understanding ideas and concepts will enable them to think critically and develop broad conceptual connections between different subjects. However, when students just memorize facts they rarely will be able to answer conceptual questions, because their critical thinking skills are not developed and they easily forget the facts that they had just memorized for a test.
To sum up, I believe that understand concepts is a crucial aspect of learning process. Although memorize facts is also part of it, we are able to do this better and more efficiently when we already understand the idea and the concept.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 79, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to process'
Suggestion: to process
...oncepts is a crucial aspect of learning process. Although memorize facts is also part o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, similarly, so, while, for example, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 52.1666666667 54% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1940.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 381.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09186351706 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84611512625 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527559055118 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 618.680645161 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.5108632534 48.9658058833 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.777777778 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1666666667 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.11111111111 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321825731573 0.236089414692 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100240884467 0.076458572812 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631206236777 0.0737576698707 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191918186414 0.150856017488 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049271172748 0.0645574589148 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21 Out of 30
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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.