Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student's performance. Continuous assessment such as coursework and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Student's performance has never been about theories alone, it has always included practicals. Therefore, formal examinations cannot be the only effective way to assess it.
It is true that formal examinations are often reliable, as it usually forces students to study hard. Its strict, traditional method of conduct under close supervision often disallows students to engage in malpractices. Perhaps that is why many teachers prefer this method to evaluate their students.
However, it is also true that the majority of students, rather than learn to understand, tend to memorize to pass since it is their retained information that is being assessed. This contradicts the primary purpose of assessment: to gather 'relevant' information about the performance or progress of students. So whether formal examination is the only effective to assess student's performance is debatable. Continuous assessment is just another method that could be implemented that would assist in assessing performance.
The day-to-day feedback adopted in continuous assessment is undoubtedly effective. Projects and course works, for example, are carried out by students and assessed and corrected by supervisors almost every day, allowing tracking of progress, as well as measuring of performance to a satisfactory level. Not only that, it also aids understanding, as well as accurate representation of student's academic abilities
Although some would still contest the effectiveness of continuous assessment due to the minor issue of plagiarism, experts have developed various methods to tackle this problem, so their opinion is invalid. It would then seem that it is one of many duties of teachers to embrace this method, not just formal examination.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, so, still, then, therefore, well, for example, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1482.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 261.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.67816091954 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0193898071 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12115472969 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.597701149425 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 459.9 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.746894527 49.4020404114 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.0 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0769230769 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46153846154 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.310549908871 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11210044 0.084324248473 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0850681325271 0.0667982634062 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166480037841 0.151304729494 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535554599776 0.056905535591 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 50.2224549098 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.66 12.4159519038 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.01 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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