in the education system, assessment through written formal examinations is valid or not?
As a student, you couldn't be a stranger to examinations. From primary school to university, our life has been filled up with endless exams, such as maths, English, Chinese, physics and chemistry tests, and monthly, midterm and final tests. As long as you are still at school, you can never escape the fate of taking examinations. Written formal examinations have long become a necessary tool to assess whether students have worked hard and how well they have mastered what they are taught. And I do think it is valid and indispensible.
To begin with, written formal examinations can serve to push students to study hard. It is so common to see some students burn the midnight oil and study hard to cram for an exam, most of whom seldom take their studies seriously and kill time by playing computer games or watching dramas all the time, and even not attending classes. Only examinations can divert their attention a bit and get them starting studying.
What is more important is written examinations are a necessary tool to assess how well the students have mastered what they were taught. The ultimate goal of studying is to master and employ the knowledge you've learned in real life. One may find his/her weak points of learning during an exam. Things you don't understand or misunderstand and don't remember clearly would all be reflected on the test paper and score.
However, what I said above doesn't mean written formal examinations have no flaws. I do believe it is valid and necessary, but meanwhile, we should not overstate its importance and neglect non-exam tests. China's exam-oriented education has long become a target of criticism. And it is the over-focus on written exams that lies behind the issue. Not all subjects are suitable to adopt the written exams to assess students' ability, after all a football player cannot succeed in a testing room.So we should take a moderate approach-set written exams in accordance with the characteristics of subjects and improve students' practical ability.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, still, well, while, after all, such as, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 7.0 214% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 1.00243902439 798% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 20.0 6.8 294% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 5.60731707317 428% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 33.7804878049 104% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 965.302439024 174% => OK
No of words: 336.0 196.424390244 171% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9880952381 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 3.73543355544 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74821499479 2.65546596893 103% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 106.607317073 188% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595238095238 0.547539520022 109% => OK
syllable_count: 517.5 283.868780488 182% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 1.53170731707 392% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 4.33902439024 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.07073170732 280% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 0.482926829268 1035% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 8.94146341463 190% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 66.7779463419 43.030603864 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.5882352941 112.824112599 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7647058824 22.9334400587 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 5.23603664747 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 1.69756097561 530% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 1.13902439024 790% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.09268292683 122% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20690155802 0.215688989381 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0651139357268 0.103423049105 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0668993035415 0.0843802449381 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120257009803 0.15604864568 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0449952282806 0.0819641961636 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.2329268293 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 61.2550243902 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 11.4140731707 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.06136585366 102% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 40.7170731707 189% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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