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.
The author concludes that Omega University should terminate student evaluations of professors, because it was observed that after the evaluation had been introduced, professors were assigning higher grades to the students. Employers saw this increase in scores as inflated and considered them not accurate reflections of the students' potential. Although, this seems like a logical argument at first, certain evidence needs to be provided to justify its validity.
Firstly, the argument implies that the professors gave a higher grade to students so as to get a better evaluation. The increase in g...
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