Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student's performance. Continuous assessment such as course work and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some people argue that final examinations are the only means to assess a student’s performance and by comparison, continuous assessment cannot produce desired results. While I fully believe that the former is one of few other ways to test their progress, latter could be more productive.
Although conventional exams have been exercised in the human history for long time, one of the drawbacks is its method of judging test takers’ knowledge. A test, by definition, is intended to measure individual’s knowledge on a specific subject. Sadly, exams are structured in a way that students can memorize information and regurgitate it onto exam papers without need of understanding what they are learning. Stealth assessments, by contrast, are another way of evaluating students which assesses their knowledge over a small amount of time such as a semester rather than one time test. A semester enables them to learn a subject in smaller units, providing enough time to understand and learn.
It is argued that continuous assessment is not an effective way to assess students‘ progress. However their reasons are groundless. Admittedly, some test takers do not perform well in exams even though they are far better than their peers. While conventional exams do not take this factor into consideration, continuous assessment put emphasis on working closely with pupils in order to provide overall assistance. Furthermore, teachers can spot their weak points at an early stage and meanwhile pupils can put more efforts on their weaknesses. Overall, this approach ensures that students are equipped with desired knowledge.
In conclusion, final examinations are not the only efficient means to find out where students stand in terms of their progress. Stealth assessments are one of the other ways to do this. Likewise, continuous assessment can also provide efficient results.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 100, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... way to assess students' progress. However their reasons are groundless. Admittedl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, likewise, so, well, while, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1605.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45918367347 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07919329501 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595238095238 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5036303597 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.3125 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.375 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0625 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273474571938 0.244688304435 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0972727623723 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101849593628 0.0667982634062 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18639307116 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0620353752823 0.056905535591 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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