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.
In the preceeding argument, the author believes that student evaluation of professors has resulted on overall higher grades and less competitiveness of graduates from Omega University, and thus calls for a termination in the evaluation. At first glance, the recommendation may seem to be plausible; however, a closer scrutiny reveals that the statement above is not supported by evidence proffered.
To begin with, there is no direct causal relationship between the overall rise in student\'s grades and the implementation of evaluation of professors. That professors might expect better evaluations from students by giving higher scores and the concurrence of the two events may make the author\'s speculations compelling, but other possibilities also exists. For instance, may be the teaching qualities really improved after the evaluation begins due to the pressure from students. To figure out the true reasons leading to this dramatic rise, a thorough investigation on the student\'s direct to the teaching quality and the performance of professors is needed.
In addition, the lower employment of Omega graduates compared to Alpha University cannot be solely attributed to the inflated scores, if there is any. Employers evaluate their candidates from multifarious aspects, grades at university being only a small part of them. The author does not rule out the possibility that the ability of Omega students were really outstriped by their counterparts from Alpha University, and the overall high grades only plays a minor role. If this is the case, then it is the education of Omega University that need to be improved. In order to attain concrete evidence for answering this question, a comparison between the working ability of Omega and Alpha graduates would be advisable, instead of only comparing the grades.
Last but not least, even if professors intentionally assigned higher grades to receive better evaluations from students, this does not necessarily mean that student evaluation should be aborted. Arguably, without student evaluation, the performance of professors would be more intractable, which might further devastate the education at Omega University. On the contrary, the administration of Omega University should come up with measures to ensure the integrity of student evaluations. Letting students finish their evaluations before professors assigning their grades might make sense, for instance.
In conclusion, while it may be true that Omega University ought to tackle the problem of overall higher grades assigned by professors to secure its graduate\'s job, the assertions in the arguments are not substantiated by sufficient facts, undermining the valuation of the recommendation that student evaluation should be terminated.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, really, so, then, thus, while, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2351.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 417.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.63788968825 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13872688914 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505995203837 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 748.8 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5033184866 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.9375 119.503703932 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0625 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.6875 5.70786347227 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.302258070389 0.218282227539 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112208809658 0.0743258471296 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602620926541 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181909500597 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0466705171351 0.0628817314937 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 14.3799401198 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.17 48.3550499002 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.73 12.5979740519 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.51 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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