Formal examination are the only effective way to assess student’s performance. Continual assessment such as course work and projects is not a satisfactory way to do it.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Opinions vary on whether formal examination or continual assessment plays an important role to assess the performance of students. I can understand the reason why some people think that formal examination is the best one, however, I am of the opinion that continual assessment can carry out the assessment.
It is undeniable that formal assessment is a beneficial way to test the student' knowledge in terms of knowledge synthesis ability and the saving money for many examinations. Regarding the former, the formal examination, such as, the final exam happens when every lecture are presented for students, they accumulate enough knowledge during semester and the test can be checked out all the knowledge they gain through the general test, as a result, there is only one exam during four months gives students more time to study and satisfy their acquisition of knowledge to sit an exam as the best of them. As far as I am concerned is that the schools can save a lot of money to invest in the cutting-edge facilities when they only hold an end-semester exam. It is essential to foster an effective teaching method thanks to modern types of equipment instead of examination which raise the test anxiety.
Despite the aforementioned arguments, continual assessment brings many benefits people should consider related to learning motivation and effective feedbacks. The major contribution is this method can boost the student’ energy as they can find some minor achievements, which can help them increase the motivation for engagement in the curriculum throughout the course and avoid the last – minute cramping before the final exam. With regard to the latter, given that the examination performance, the students can be given back the feedbacks influencing the student’s perception of study purpose. This helps them not only find out their effective learning-method and increase effort and persistence to achieve a better performance in the later assessments, but also avoid high-stakes when they have a bad performance in an exam as subjective reasons.
In conclusion, I believe both of these kinds of examination have different advantages, but I think continual assessment do outweigh the formal examination.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...dge to sit an exam as the best of them. As far as I am concerned is that the schoo...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ent do outweigh the formal examination.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, regarding, so, i think, in conclusion, such as, as a result, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 8.3376753507 300% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 353.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31728045326 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08765235927 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543909348442 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 592.2 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 32.0 20.2975951904 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.3862862063 49.4020404114 169% => OK
Chars per sentence: 170.636363636 106.682146367 160% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.0909090909 20.7667163134 155% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21657775132 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0923617107676 0.084324248473 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0574068248515 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146642375375 0.151304729494 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037861433545 0.056905535591 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.7 13.0946893788 150% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 50.2224549098 61% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 11.3001002004 150% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.17 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.47 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.1190380762 146% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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