Nowadays many high schools and universities require students to work on projects in groups, and all members of the group receive the same grade (mark) on the project. Do you agree or disagree that giving every member of a group the same grade is a good way to evaluate students?
Nowadays doing a research project is a main part of students' curriculum and all professors encourage them to do their best when they are asked to do a project in a group. There is a dilemma that we should consider all the group members as equal and grade them the same, or it is better to rate them separately. I am of the opinion that taking all the peers as the same and rate them equally is better. I feel this way for two reasons which I elaborate on them in the following essay.
First, consider all the team members as the same would motivate them to enhance the virtue of team-working. They will endeavor together to reach a common goal. One of the most crucial qualities which has an enormous effect on the students' personalities is working with peers in a productive environment using the whole potential of individual and group unity. To achieve this goal, we should encourage team-members to look at themselves as a friend not a rival. My personal example drives this concept to home. When I studied pharmacy in Ankara university, I were assigned to run a project on some antimicrobials medicine in a hospital with five friends of mine. All of us attempted arduously to do our parts on time, although we have slightly unsimilar tasks in that research, the eager to achieve our common aim encourage us to help each other to reach our goal with the best results. I personally believe that working in that group project, which we rated as the same, not only help me to learn more about the medication, but also taught me how deal with others in a group when we are seen as the same.
Second, analyzing the individuals’ contribution in a group project is not straightforward, since they have some overlapped tasks and actually in some parts they work jointly. How the professor could grade group members differently when the aim of this work is collaborating. To put this into perspective, I remember one of my student projects which we worked together, but the professor grade us individually. Not only the grades were far from fairness, but they also ruined our sense of team-working. After consulting with our professor, he accepted to change his strategy when he saw that we had done our jobs sometimes with each other somehow that we could not explain that separately. Had we not spoken with our teacher; it could have ruined our team efforts.
In sum, I firmly believe that team working projects should be graded as the same for all team members since it motivates students to help each other to increase their knowledge and abilities and because rating students clearly is a demanding work and almost lead to an unsatisfactory result.
- TOEFL T P O 11 Integrated Writing Task 3
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, look, second, so, i feel
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 67.0 43.0788530466 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2192.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 464.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72413793103 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76996589478 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480603448276 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 685.8 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.6968234574 48.9658058833 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.368421053 100.406767564 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4210526316 20.6045352989 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.94736842105 5.45110844103 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284945756421 0.236089414692 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0930323993032 0.076458572812 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0829703306362 0.0737576698707 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198490638406 0.150856017488 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0476829127943 0.0645574589148 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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