One of the most prevalent evaluation strategies is ‘pen and paper’ method which has been
implemented for decades. Opinions are divided on whether this procedure is a proper approach
or not. My own considered opinion is in favor of working out other alternatives due to some
existent deficits in this method.
It is argued that ‘pen and paper’ method is an accepted one worldwide since it could assess
students accurately. The results of such examinations have demonstrated students performing
well during the semester, mostly succeed in these tests as well. Providing students with a unique
structure of evaluation which could be deemed highly fair is another positive ramification.
However, not similar performance of individuals in ‘pen and paper’ exams due to anxiety is
among the pitfalls of it. Considerable numbers of intelligent students, in turn, fail to represent
their actual abilities in these tests.
In an effort to propose complementary methods, verbal assessment would be a viable approach.
Admittedly, some would claim that tests akin to this could not satisfy educational and
examination standards. Nonetheless, setting unique principals is able to address this issue.
Comprehensive knowledge of teachers regarding the abilities of their students could interfere
in/with the final result and would alleviate strains of them. My performance, as an illustration, in
verbal tests during the semester was noteworthy in contrast with final ‘pen and paper’ exams
wherein I always failed to acquire my desired grade. Accordingly, had I have had I had the
opportunity of taking such exams beside old-fashioned ones, I could have demonstrated my
competence to a great extent.
As the above makes it clear, pervasive though ‘pen and paper’ assessment methods are, in a
dynamic educational system old procedures should be modified to achieve legitimate outcomes.
For this aim, it is predicted that future schools will have implemented new approaches for
evaluation in coming years.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, however, if, nonetheless, regarding, so, well, in contrast, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 309.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.75404530744 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15047504831 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598705501618 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.4695857786 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.125 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3125 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.625 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 24.0 4.38176352705 548% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282250438431 0.244688304435 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0911298592409 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0879469682794 0.0667982634062 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0730679258482 0.151304729494 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0950601432536 0.056905535591 167% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.07 12.4159519038 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.94 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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