Standardized Testing
The Article discusses a fascinating topic pertaining to benefits for students by Standardized testing system and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that this system is not beneficial for all the students in the society and opposes each of the author’s reasons.
First, the reading passage discusses that the test is standardized state-wide and nationwide and also it puts pressure on students to study well in order to go ahead in next higher grade. In contrast, the professor provides information that due to standardization same material is used by teachers for all the students and he adds up stating that trained instructors are not having any rights to modify the study material based on the liking, capability and unique learning style of students. Clearly a disparity exists between the article and the evidence exhibited by the professor. As a result, we can safely assume that all the students are not benefited by the standardized testing method.
Second, the article pushes forth the idea that because of this standardized testing method, federal government can do comparison of different schools and reward the best performing school along with providing help to schools with weak students. However, the classroom discussion contends that by this the best performing school gets more fund and weaker will not get any benefits. According to professor, the rough neighbourhood and environment where students live is hurdle for the students to study well, so government should consider that and try to solve that issue along with providing economical aide to the needy schools. Consequently, we can argue that indeed the claim made in reading is unsubstantiated and students suffer more because of standardisation.
Finally, the reading posits that because of comparison of different schools based on standardised test performance that weak students will be helped and will get assistance to move forward by learning. The professor refutes this point by explaining that weak students who do not pass the tests, need to stay back in the same class and they will not get any help. Professor talks about students who are ill and not capable for performing good in exams are at loss because of standardised testing system. We learn from this that clever students can also achieve success.
In summary, while both the reading passage and classroom discussion provide interesting information with regards to standardized tests and its effect on students, a significant amount of evidence supports that all the students will not get equal amount of benefit from standardized test. Therefore, the reading passage fails to justify the claim towards standardized tests.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 218, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'school'.
Suggestion: school
...ing school along with providing help to schools with weak students. However, the classr...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the claim towards standardized tests.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, finally, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, well, while, in contrast, in summary, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 22.412803532 120% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 30.3222958057 178% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2286.0 1373.03311258 166% => OK
No of words: 428.0 270.72406181 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34112149533 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.04702891845 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90666601292 2.5805825403 113% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 145.348785872 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492990654206 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 687.6 419.366225166 164% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.3053704629 49.2860985944 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.875 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.75 21.698381199 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5625 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.274368331377 0.272083759551 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108047626384 0.0996497079465 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120016959704 0.0662205650399 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193845632301 0.162205337803 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108572189486 0.0443174109184 245% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.3589403974 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 53.8541721854 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 63.6247240618 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
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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