Teachers’ salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
You can never overestimate the influence of a great teacher on the life of a child. Accordingly, great teachers deserve to be paid well. The prompt suggests that teachers should be compensated according to their students’ academic performance, which implies that a teacher’s performance is determined based on the academic performance of his or her students. I strongly disagree with this proposal for three reasons.
First, a teacher’s income should reflect his or her performance, which should be evaluated by a number of indicators. One of the indicators might be the academic performance of their students. However, other factors exist that are no less important. For example, one indicator could be whether or not children like his classes. After all, if she sacrifices the passion and curiosity in the children for a raise in their academic scores, she damages the children’s long-term academic potential. Other indicators may include, whether he challenges students to take intellectural risks. Risk-taking often yields less-than-satisfactory performance in the short term. But it is tremendously beneficial to the children’s long-term life outcome. Focusing on the academic performance only would almost certainly exclude the room for experimentation and risk-taking, which is how real learning happens. These other indicators should also be taken into consideration while one determins techers’ salaries. And these indicators often conflict with the students academic performance.
Secondly, determining a teacher’s income purely on his / her students’ academic performance causes other issues. Once the students’ academic performance becomes the only KPI that determines a teacher’s compensation, the teacher is incentivised to adjust his / her behavior to maximise this KPI. Such behavior may include, but not limited to, rejecting developmentally challenged students, discouraging students’ participation in extra-curricular, i.e. non-academic, activities, using fear-based approach to manage students etc. In fact, one can already see the aftermath of such a teacher evaluation system in China. In order to raise the academic scores of their class, teachers would employ a variety of means such as frequent ranking and re-ranking of students after each test, public shaming of students have low academic scores, cancellation of “unimportant” classes such as Physical Education or Arts. These means prove to be efficient in achieving what they are meant to achieve - Chinese students on average are good at scoring in standardized tests. However, students’ socio-emotional development falls behind their global peers. You end up having many young adults behaving like “giant babies” in colleges and workplaces. So is the outcome of focusing on academic performance.
Last, nowadays, students’ academic performance is almost exclusively measured by standardized tests, which causes additional problems. Standardized test scores can reflect certain aspects of one’s academic ability, but they become more problematic than helpful in recent years, as more and more schools and colleges rely on them to evaluate students. Many of the world’s most important questions cannot be answered with the certainly and brevity demanded by multiple-choice type answers. And our children need to learn to identify, to pose these questions, to imagine possible solutions, and iterate on them based on the results of implementation. This requires curiosity, perseverance, imagination, creative thinking, little of which could be measured via standardized tests. As the world marches into an era of machine learning, these will grow more and more important, as the specific knowledge and information will become less and less so. Until one day, students’ academic performance could be measured to properly reflect their curiosity, perseverance, imagination and creative thinking, we could perhaps then attempt to use it as a proxy for students’ overall quality, and therefore to base teachers’ income on it.
In summary, given the issues raised above, it is problematic to pay a teacher based on the students’ academic performance, before an all-encompassing measurement is devised for students’ overall intellectual abilities.
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Suggestion: whether
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, while, after all, for example, in fact, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 12.9106741573 209% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3725.0 2235.4752809 167% => OK
No of words: 625.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.96 5.05705443957 118% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.59968527605 2.79657885939 129% => OK
Unique words: 326.0 215.323595506 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5216 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 1167.3 704.065955056 166% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.59117977528 119% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 68.1400141139 60.3974514979 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.40625 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.53125 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78125 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312077940334 0.243740707755 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0880408713025 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621338677864 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205128201403 0.150359130593 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0573416148127 0.0667264976115 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 26.81 48.8420337079 55% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.29 12.1639044944 142% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 182.0 100.480337079 181% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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