Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by 30 percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in grades, believe that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately reflect student achievement; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument presented here advocates for doing away with student evaluation of professors, which, as per the claim, is costing the jobs of students of the Omega University. However, a number of unwarranted assumptions made by author dilute the persuasiveness of the argument.
In order to evaluate the strengths and weakness of the claim, let us first take a look at the assumptions being made by the author.
First and foremost, a clear assumption being made by the author here is that students are receiving inflated marks over the last 15 years, ever since the process of student evaluation of professors was commenced. However, this may be based on a completely fallacious notion. It could be that the teachers, due to the evaluation process, improved their methods of teaching, perhaps presented concepts in a simplified manners and handed out regular assignment, and as such, the improved grades are a result of better teaching and learning process. If this is the case, the marks are not inflated, but a result of better understanding of concepts by the students. In fact, doing away with it may prove detrimental, if it makes the faculty lax towards their responsibilities. A study can be conducted among the students, to confirm or deny this view, and will be the best evidence to evaluate this argument.
Secondly, it may be possible that the students are so focussed on their studies, marks and grades, that they may not have any extracurricular skill, as desired by most companies today. If this is the case, the university should work on launching some co-curricular activities for the students to make them better suited for possible vacanies. The university can also take a look at the students of Alpha University, who got hired by potential employers, and analyse how they differed from their own students.
Additionally, the potential employers, can be requested to conduct their own examinations, if they believe that the marks of students are inflated by the university. However, this assumption too has nowhere been substantiated. It may very well be possible that the potential employers feel that students of Omega University are either too intelligent for them, or perhaps are so studious that they do not know ways of the professional world, and hence may not be able to perform well with them. Alternately, students of Alpha University may be displaying the skills that perfectly match with their requirements. If this is the case, then the evaluation process of teachers has nothing to do with low campus placement rate of the varsity. In order to get a clarity over the matter, a team of faculty and adiministrative staff could meet some potential employers and ask about the reasons that were holding them back from hiring their graduates. These responses should be taken into account while formulating a plan of action to enhance the hiring rates of graduate students of Omega University.
Another assumption that has not been quantified by the author here is that how successful have Alpha University students been in getting jobs, when compared to students of Omega University. It may be possible that only a handful of extra got hired, due to requirements in a particular company. For instance, if a pharmaceutical company is looking for biomedical graduates, and Alpha University has them in abundance, they have hired a bulk from there, whereas if Omega University does not offer this particular displine at the varsity, it is but natural that its students were not hired. On the other hand, it may also be possible that the overall job scenario may be bleak, and very few companies came looking for new employees. The companies who usually hired from Omega were not taking any new recruits for some time, while the same may not be the case for Alpha students.
Thus, in conclusion, without carefully analysing the underlying causes of reduced hiring of graduates, it is not right to conclude that doing away with students evaluation of teaching effectiveness of professors is likely to improve the placement scenario of Omega University.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 673 350
No. of Characters: 3323 1500
No. of Different Words: 278 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.093 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.938 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.82 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 222 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 193 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 145 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 89 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.92 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.26 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.307 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.307 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 538, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to process'
Suggestion: to process
... result of better teaching and learning process. If this is the case, the marks are not...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, whereas, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.6327345309 204% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 28.8173652695 184% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 55.5748502994 153% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3408.0 2260.96107784 151% => OK
No of words: 673.0 441.139720559 153% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06389301634 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.09335287823 4.56307096286 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93099744302 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 293.0 204.123752495 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.435364041605 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1073.7 705.55239521 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 2.70958083832 369% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.67365269461 478% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4725731822 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.32 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.92 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227052062859 0.218282227539 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680731517632 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0540371613249 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12188637978 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.044295286801 0.0628817314937 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 98.500998004 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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