⦁ 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.
From the above arguments it is concluded that the only reason students from Omega University are not able to secure jobs is because their grades are beleived to be inflated. It is observed that the professors began assigning higher grades to the students in hopes that they will receive a better evaluation from their students. But grades are not the only thing that are looked over before concluding whether that person is fit for the job or not.
When graduates from Omega University are compared to students from Alpha University, it is seen that students from the latter have a higher percentage of securing a job than the former. This assumes that all Alpha professors are completely honest in their grading the students academic performance. And also overlooks the other angles that may be in favour of Alpha University such as better reputation, more experienced teaching faculty, Interactive student sessions, cultural diversity, promoting social connections between the students, better athletic coaching and facilities etc. that have not been compared or even mentioned.
It is also assumed that while hiring, only a student's grades are considered. It does not bring up any other perspectives such as Internships, communication skills, credits for community service, exposure to the field etc. which are also important in the hiring process. For example if a student excels in academics but fails to express themselves during the job interview, they are more likely to not be hired. But if a student has average grades yet they were able to articulate their thoughts and express themselves meaningfully while displaying their control over the skills they have gained, it is more than likely that the company will hire them.
So the argument that Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors in order to help them secure jobs, is flawed. There needs to be more concrete evidence to prove that the relationship between the two that is made on the assumptions above is true and which will help us evaluate the argument more effectively.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 335 350
No. of Characters: 1704 1500
No. of Different Words: 171 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.278 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.087 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.663 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.917 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.215 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.37 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.37 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.136 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, while, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1734.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 335.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17611940299 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74085449437 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.516417910448 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.3284089842 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.857142857 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9285714286 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.07142857143 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.292301212632 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104394386936 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0882308635106 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181828839326 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0578130512942 0.0628817314937 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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