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 questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
Omega University implemented a procedure in which the teaching effectiveness of professors is evaluated by students. Since then, the students have been getting high grades and there is a sudden rise in overall student’s grades by 30 percent. Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable them to secure jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluations of professors. The given argument needs to answer certain questions in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument are reasonable. The following question needs to be answered as given below-:
The first question that an author needs to answer is that it is not known that before implementation of the policy students of Omega University were getting high grades or not. As no past statistics are there, therefore, it will be wrong to compare the present statistics with the past one. It might be the case that students of Omega University have started doing hard work or it may be the result of better teaching methodology or there may be a change in any evaluation policy due to which students are getting better grades. The author needs to answer all these questions.
The second question an author needs to answer is that author has merely assumed that potential employers are not selecting students of Omega University because of their high grades. The selection criteria of the potential employers have not been mentioned. The author needs to answer whether the selection criteria of employers is solely based on the academic performance of the students or based on any entrance test or interview. The important question that needs to answer is that do employers actually think that inflated grades are responsible for giving employment to Omega students.
The third question that an author needs to answer is on what basis the author is comparing the placements statistics of Omega University and Alpha University. There is no past placement statistics mentioned in the argument. Moreover, it has not been mentioned that Alpha University has implemented the same policy as adopted by Omega University. It would be wrong to compare the two. The question left unresolved without any past and present statistics. Nothing has been mentioned about the curriculum structure of both universities. It might be the case that the curriculum structure of Alpha University may be world-class or industry oriented. The author needs to answer all these questions to justify the prediction.
As the argument has not answered these questions it is not reasonable to justify the prediction and the argument made. Therefore, we cannot say that in order to enable Omega students to secure better jobs, the professor's evaluation by students should be terminated.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 451 350
No. of Characters: 2312 1500
No. of Different Words: 167 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.608 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.126 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.779 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 177 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 132 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 109 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 75 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.792 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.47 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.417 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.497 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 181, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...ity were getting high grades or not. As no past statistics are there, therefore, i...
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Line 4, column 182, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...niversity because of their high grades. The selection criteria of the potential emp...
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Line 4, column 257, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...tial employers have not been mentioned. The author needs to answer whether the sele...
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Line 4, column 432, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ased on any entrance test or interview. The important question that needs to answer...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...r giving employment to Omega students. The third question that an author needs to ...
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Line 5, column 96, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'placements'' or 'placement's'?
Suggestion: placements'; placement's
... what basis the author is comparing the placements statistics of Omega University and Alph...
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Line 6, column 210, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
...ega students to secure better jobs, the professors evaluation by students should be termin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2355.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 451.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22172949002 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85061524004 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.383592017738 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 750.6 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.1451732438 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.391304348 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6086956522 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.04347826087 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.262164822041 0.218282227539 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0827108807373 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0928859346566 0.0701772020484 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14431235226 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104279960177 0.0628817314937 166% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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