Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Learning outcomes of a student are mainly assessed in many different techniques. Teachers like to evaluate the performance of a student not only by the individual absorbing ability but also by studying in a group or team. There is an ongoing debate regarding the effectiveness of learning in a group. Many people argue that assigning tasks such as projects or assignments to a group of students are more benign than delegating the task to complete by all alone. However, I strongly disagree with them because I think group study makes some students reluctant, incapable and incompetent to survive in the future.
First of all, assigning a group projects make some students lazy and inactive about that topic. They feel that some other students will do the required task so they don't need to involve. I can explain this phenomenon with a real example from my own life. I was once appointed in a group work containing five members. We were asked to collect a sample of 50 insects for a laboratory experiment. I was very pleased since it was my first group project and task was interesting to me. To my utter surprise, I eventually discovered that, three of my friends didn't like to involve in collecting the samples. They delegated the responsibilities to us and offered us a buffet dinner for our efforts. I was very much frustrated that we got the same grade and acknowledgment although the level of contribution was completely different. This incident clearly underscores that, group study can make a false impression about the grade of a student which make the students reluctant to contribute in the task. At the end, many students actually don't learn anything from the project.
Secondly, group projects make some students incapable. More specifically, whenever a task is assigned to a group, the weaker students try to accomplish the easy portion. As a consequence, they don't have any idea about the complex analogy or investigation of the project which is a prime objective to provide an assignment or project. This scenario is visible for undergraduate thesis or project works. Whenever the undergraduate dissertation is distributed among a group of two or more students, it is found that the weaker students like to avoid the methodology or complex calculation parts. In fact, many of them don't have any knowledge about the topic. It is undeniable that undergrad thesis has a groundbreaking importance in a student's life. Unfortunately, group project destroys that scope of learning.
Last but not the least, group projects make many students incompetent. Students who like to do tasks in groups have less self confidence and decision making ability. This lacking have a strong negative impact in their future career. The company who hire them as employees often complain regarding their potential. One of my colleague always asks me for a suggestion in each of his assigned responsibilities. He confessed that he was too much dependent on his group members about making a decision which is troubling him in his career. He always tries to escape from individual training and learning program. Therefore, group study inhibits his conceptual as well as thinking ability and eventually makes him incompetent.
In brief, to me, group projects are not effective as they are believed.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, as to, i think, in brief, in fact, such as, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 9.8082437276 41% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 52.1666666667 134% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2706.0 1977.66487455 137% => OK
No of words: 542.0 407.700716846 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9926199262 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91998521221 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464944649446 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 869.4 618.680645161 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 9.59856630824 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 20.6003584229 5% => 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: 542.0 20.1344086022 2692% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 48.9658058833 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 2706.0 100.406767564 2695% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 542.0 20.6045352989 2630% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 159.0 5.45110844103 2917% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 11.8709677419 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261123083684 0.236089414692 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.261123083684 0.076458572812 342% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0737576698707 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167966954974 0.150856017488 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0526975531545 0.0645574589148 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 273.1 11.7677419355 2321% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -478.65 58.1214874552 -824% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 6.10430107527 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 214.7 10.1575268817 2114% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.14 10.9000537634 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 34.19 8.01818996416 426% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 126.0 86.8835125448 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 57.0 10.002688172 570% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 218.8 10.0537634409 2176% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 219.0 10.247311828 2137% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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