Many people believe that formal “pen and paper” examinations are not the best method of assessing educational achievement
What is your view of examinations?
Examinations are a popular way to evaluate students’ abilities all over the world. However, many people say that formal written examinations are not the best method of assessing students’ performance. In my opinion, besides traditional examinations, there are many other methods to assess educational result.
Firstly, formal examinations include a range of tasks which are useful to test the students’ knowledge such as questions, assignments etc. Students who perform well in the examinations usually have a good understanding about what they learnt. The drawbacks of formal written exams are that they have a short time limit, which generally induces anxiety for students, and they cannot evaluate other abilities of students such as critical thinking skill, verbal expression ability… The fact is there are many students, who do very well during normal studying, have low marks on exams because they are anxious or they are not good at writing. In contrast, some students get high scores on exams just because they are good at rote learning, they forget everything they learnt right after the exams. Thus, “pen and paper” exams are not the best way to evaluate students’ abilities.
I think the best way to assess educational achievement is combining written exam with other testing methods, for example: presentation, personal projects…With these methods, students could perform their knowledge in a less nervous environment and teachers could evaluate other abilities of students. However, it is easy to cheat on some tasks, students might copy other people’s result from the Internet or ask their parents for help instead of finishing the projects by their own.
In conclusion, formal examinations are not the only way to show the result of all studying progress. Teachers need to observe their students’ performance during all the course and have many standards to evaluate their abilities.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 155, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: With
...xample: presentation, personal projects…With these methods, students could perform t...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, however, so, thus, well, for example, i think, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1626.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45637583893 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89353603503 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543624161074 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 494.1 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => 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: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 91.4688775243 49.4020404114 185% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.5 106.682146367 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8333333333 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1666666667 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219194088481 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10668468393 0.084324248473 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0969890048025 0.0667982634062 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156716360631 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113783706164 0.056905535591 200% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 155, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: With
...xample: presentation, personal projects…With these methods, students could perform t...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, firstly, however, so, thus, well, for example, i think, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1626.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45637583893 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89353603503 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543624161074 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 494.1 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => 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: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 91.4688775243 49.4020404114 185% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.5 106.682146367 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8333333333 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1666666667 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219194088481 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10668468393 0.084324248473 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0969890048025 0.0667982634062 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156716360631 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113783706164 0.056905535591 200% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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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.