Along with the development of society, innovations in education seem to flourish more and more throughout its history. In recent years, although there's been a number of educators who have tried giving students group projects as they believe it's one of the optimal ways to assess students, I'm of the opinion that this method does not work efficiently as it is supposed to.
First of all, a group project does not always fully reflect the effort of each members in the group. Not every individual assigned in a group is a responsible and diligent student as they should be. In fact, there are always some in the team who truly care about their academic performance and always strive for the best possible grades, and some who are in the opposite position, being satisfied with any grade they receive. As a result, it is usually the responsible students who do most of the work in order to achieve the score they want. Everyone would agree that it is not fair and not transparent if both hard-working students and lazy ones are marked the same grade with the substantially different amount of work they put in. That is not to mention, in the end, it's only the most participating students who are assessed correctly and never the indifferent ones.
Another factor that makes the method of giving all group members the same score an ineffective way of grading is that it can truly have negative impacts on students' education and academic ability. If students know they are in the same group with some excellent students and that their homework assignment will be taken care of by them, they won't bother participating enthusiastically in the project. What's worse is when those students start to develop the mindset that they don't even have to worry about doing anything in their group work and still get good grades. This causes them to have the wrong attitude towards the purpose of working in teams and learning in general, which dramatically affects their performance at school in the long run. Ironically enough, they may get good grades in their school reports but little understanding of what they was taught in class.
In conclusion, giving group assignments can be a great way for students to build their teamwork skills, yet it can also lose its original purpose if students are not taught about how to work together effectively first. Evaluating all group members the same only makes sense if all students take equal part in the process.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, still, thus, in conclusion, in fact, in general, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2032.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 419.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84964200477 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58948450883 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522673031026 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => 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: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 49.6693064175 48.9658058833 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.466666667 100.406767564 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9333333333 20.6045352989 136% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.45110844103 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.32702697327 0.236089414692 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120449243087 0.076458572812 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0839916547187 0.0737576698707 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204024785834 0.150856017488 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0635705086282 0.0645574589148 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 11.7677419355 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 10.1575268817 124% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 86.8835125448 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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