Do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?
The importance of evaluation method of accessing student's performance was always a debatable topic. Even though many people believe that this can be done by continual assessment of their assignment work and project works. On the other people are in favor formal written examinations. I believe latter appears to be more appropriate option. This can be analyzed by looking at both the cases with reasons and examples and thus lead to a plausible conclusion.
Firstly, the workbook assignments submitted by students are not done by them. A study by the education department of India proved that many parents help their children in completion of their assignments. Not only this, projects are copied from other students in order to submit them on time. Thus, it is clear that it is not a reliable method to judge students' capabilities.
Secondly, the examination that is taken in educational institutions makes students learn the concept and memorize the same that they studied in classroom. Moreover, these exams are conducted in presence of invigilator. That restricts students to take any external help. This formal written assignments shows how much grasping power does an individual have. Therefore, formal written examinations are considered as one of the most reliable method to test one's ability.
To conclude, looking at the discussion it is clear that advantages of written formal assessment outweighs the advantages of testing by assignments and project work. I believe that written examinations method should be implemented across the globe and it can be predicted that many countries adopt this method of assessment because of its effectiveness.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, look, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 8.36945812808 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 20.9802955665 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.75862068966 208% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1406.0 1207.87684729 116% => OK
No of words: 261.0 242.827586207 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38697318008 5.00649968141 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 3.92707691288 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98784254356 2.71678728327 110% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 139.433497537 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570881226054 0.580463131201 98% => OK
syllable_count: 436.5 379.143842365 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.6157635468 152% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 12.6551724138 126% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.5024630542 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.1722458349 50.4703680194 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.875 104.977214359 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3125 20.9669160288 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3125 7.25397266985 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 2.75862068966 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 2.91625615764 274% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147352569861 0.242375264174 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0459939389152 0.0925447433944 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0565451110407 0.071462118173 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0962801997734 0.151781067708 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.066178849881 0.0609392437508 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 12.6369458128 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 53.1260098522 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.9458128079 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 11.5310837438 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.32886699507 108% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 55.0591133005 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.94827586207 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.3980295567 81% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 72.2222222222 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 65.0 Out of 90
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