agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they
suspect that others have cheated. Groveton's honor code replaced a system in which
teachers closely monitored students. Under that system, teachers reported an average of
thirty cases of cheating per year. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the
first year it was in place, students reported twentyone cases of cheating; five years later,
this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton
students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than
without. Such evidence suggests that all colleges and universities should adopt honor
codes similar to Groveton's. This change is sure to result in a dramatic decline in cheating
among college students.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to
decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how
the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The paragraph suggest that an honor code adopted by Groveton college is more efficient to minimize the instances of cheating among students as compared to a system where teachers will monitor students closely.
To begin with honor code makes students monitor others if they are cheating, in this case trust issues may arise with this approach. Students may not reveal the truth as there are more chances of supporting each other than revealing others truth. Contrary, teachers having close monitoring on students may reveal the real picture.
There can be many questions to be asked, firstly what is the approach that is considered to compare two methods? The approach considered here seems divergent: the honor code data is presented in terms of numbers whereas a system implemented the teachers monitoring is giving data in statistical terms i.e. average.
Secondly, what is the number of students that is being considered for this comparison? The interpretation of the data will change based on the population size thus the details are necessary to conclude the data.
Thirdly, the opinion both students and teachers has been considered by Groveton college? Both the parties will have different opinion based on their observations thus, considering opinions of both is important.
Lastly, are the students reporting all the instances of cheating? or the instances reported are true? If not there should be some monitoring to make sure that all the cases are reported by the students and are true.
If the questions asked above support an honor code then recommendation should be considered by other colleges. Otherwise other effective ways can be adopted in order to minimize the instances of cheating by the students.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 277 350
No. of Characters: 1416 1500
No. of Different Words: 140 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.08 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.112 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.661 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 103 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.786 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.894 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.359 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 15, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'suggests'.
Suggestion: suggests
The paragraph suggest that an honor code adopted by Groveton ...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 233, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'others'' or 'other's'?
Suggestion: others'; other's
...of supporting each other than revealing others truth. Contrary, teachers having close ...
^^^^^^
Line 6, column 66, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
...eporting all the instances of cheating? or the instances reported are true? If not...
^^
Line 6, column 216, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... reported by the students and are true. If the questions asked above support an ho...
^^^
Line 7, column 111, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Otherwise,
...should be considered by other colleges. Otherwise other effective ways can be adopted in ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, whereas, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 28.8173652695 35% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 16.3942115768 18% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1453.0 2260.96107784 64% => OK
No of words: 277.0 441.139720559 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24548736462 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72935170638 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519855595668 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 457.2 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.337128039 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.8666666667 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4666666667 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29392191841 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100431189733 0.0743258471296 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0763267257946 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136130460861 0.128457276422 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0796716285539 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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