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.
The prompt states that Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors, by arguing the underperformance of students compared to Alpha university in the job market and the supposedly high increase in the grades of students. The argument seems to be flawed and further evidence regarding these three matters must be provided to accurately evaluate the situation.
Firstly, there is no evidence provided about the similarity in the kind of education provide in Alpha University and Omega University. Employers looking for employees will look for candidates who have prior knowledge in the field of work their company operates in. For example, an airplane manufacturer would prefer to select an Aeronautical engineer rahter than a Mechanical engineeer with the same grades, further there can be a specific subject that is tought in Alpha university and not taught in Omega university, and the employers might be looking for proficiency in that particular subject. Thus more evidence on the similarity of curriculum should be provided otherwise an accurate comparison between employement rates of these two Universities can't be made.
Secondly, the increase in grades could simply be a consequence of teachers teaching better because of their fear of getting bad remarks from students, for example a raise for employee of the month would increase the efficiency of the company, thus assuming that professors are giving out free grades could be wrong. Accurate evidence regarding the actual reason for the spike must be provided in order for this argument ot be evaluated.
Morover the the spike in the results of Omega University could be because of an easing of their curriculum. For example, students will do well in the tests if the tests were easy or if the subjects were reduced. So information regarding the difficulty of cirriculum now and 15 years ago should be provided in order to evlaluate the argument correctly.
This argument is flawed in many ways, terminating student evaluation of professors could turn out to be a blunder and outright foolishness if adequate evidence is not provided for the above falacies. To evaluate the argument and to decide whether to abolish student evaluation of professors, adequate evidence need to be provided.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 361 350
No. of Characters: 1884 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.359 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.219 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.859 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 150 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 125 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.423 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.371 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.637 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.061 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 599, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...proficiency in that particular subject. Thus more evidence on the similarity of curr...
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Line 3, column 754, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...oyement rates of these two Universities cant be made. Secondly, the increase in g...
^^^^
Line 5, column 51, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the increase in grades could simply be a consequence of teachers teaching better ...
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Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...is argument ot be evaluated. Morover the the spike in the results of Omega Universit...
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Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...is argument ot be evaluated. Morover the the spike in the results of Omega Universit...
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Line 9, column 258, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rgument and to decide whether to abolish student evaluation of professors, adequa...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, well, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1926.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 361.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3351800554 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92318195614 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509695290859 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 627.3 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.7924484198 57.8364921388 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.153846154 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7692307692 23.324526521 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.165422569499 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.070171102651 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0525304794876 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109579166128 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.033775118765 0.0628817314937 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 18.0 11.9071856287 151% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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