There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment?
Although, exams have been around for ages, there is a growing tendency for children to be tested through regular assessment instead. Examinations conducted in the traditional way are the most reliable method of testing a child's knowledge level, however, there are some drawbacks to this as well.
On the one hand, exams provide the best method to analyze the knowledge and skills of students. In other words, these are conducted in a controlled environment providing an equal and fair chance to everyone to succeed. Since, the question papers are set and reviewed by experts, who are experienced in formulating them, the ability and skills of students can be adequately tested in the most efficient manner. Furthermore, such a way of conducting testing, provides the ideal assessment of students at a national level, consequently, it can be used to set standards and compare students for admissions to colleges and universities nationally.
On the other hand, one time examinations do not provide a fair method of testing a student’s ability. For instance, it is commonly accepted that this kind of testing results in excessive build up of stress and anxiety, thus, people can not perform at their best under such conditions, and therefore, it is unfair to test someone when they are not performing at their best. Another point to consider, is that research has shown that there are other better methods of assessing skills and retention such as continuous testing at regular intervals for smaller segments of the syllabus, which has been found to be much more efficient and students have been noted to get higher grades and excel academically.
In conclusion, exams have many advantages when it comes to assessing students, however, it also puts them under undue stress and might not be the best indicator of their knowledge and skills.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-08 | THAO@TRANG | 73 | view |
| 2021-03-12 | Harmanpreet 0000 | 78 | view |
| 2020-12-25 | Veejar89 | 84 | view |
| 2020-04-29 | najquad | 73 | view |
| 2018-12-16 | insidematrix | 77 | view |
- Many offenders commit more crimes after serving their first punishment Why is this happening and what measures can be taken to tackle this problem 56
- In many developing countries there is a problem with declining quality of air and water form both industry and construction What measure could be taken to prevent this 67
- Last month you had an overseas holiday with some friends where you stayed at their house They have just sent you some holiday photos Write a letter to your friends In your letter Thank them for the holiday and the photos Explain why you didn t write earli 73
- You recently organised an all day meeting for your company which took place in a hotel In your feedback participants at the meeting said that they liked the hotel but they were unhappy about the food that was served for lunch Write a letter to the manager 89
- You have organized to go on holiday with your friend However you must change your plans Write a letter to your friend In your letter tell them how much you are looking forward to the holiday explain why you must change your plans suggest alternative arran 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, furthermore, however, so, therefore, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, such as, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1548.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14285714286 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82948835459 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541528239203 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 16.0721442886 62% => 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: 30.0 20.2975951904 148% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 72.5245475684 49.4020404114 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.8 106.682146367 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1 20.7667163134 145% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.9 7.06120827912 211% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182114652425 0.244688304435 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.076101535659 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654951144572 0.0667982634062 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127451856933 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360410384915 0.056905535591 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 13.0946893788 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 50.2224549098 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.1190380762 138% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.