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.
The above argument states that since there has been the student evaluation for professors at Omega University, the professors have been assigning higher grades to students. This has resulted an increase of 30 percent in the average scores of the students. Since the employers believe that the grades of Omega university are inflated and are not accurate, Omega students get lesser jobs in comparision to its nearby Alpha University.
The argument connects the fact of implementation of the procedure for students evaluating the effectiveness of professors 15 years ago to the fact that their grades have been improved. This might had been a strong point if there had been a mention that the students that were enrolled 15 years ago and then onwards were of same calliber and intellegence as there were earlier to the implementation to the evaluation of professor procedure.
Adding to that there is also a possibility that there has been a change in the question paper pattern (that is not connected to the faculty evaluation procedure), which has made it easier for students to gain a better score. Not only there can be a change in the question paper pattern but also in the cources provided by the cuniversity might have been altered, and they might have been easy for students to grasp and score better. Considring the point in the alteration of courses, one may also consider the possibility that the courses required to get a job or by the employers might be different in Omega university than Alpha university and hence as a result there is a chance that Omega graduates are not successful in getting as many jobs as compared to students at Alpha university. This consideration weakens the conclusion for the elimination of teh student evaluation of the professor.
Added to that, the argument undermines the efforts of the professors, since it does not take into consideration the possibility that the professors might be putting into their full efforts or have modified their teaching methods, due to which the students are genuinly able to score well. This enervates the possibility that the scores given to the students at Omega university are inflated, but instead strengthens the possibility that the scores are reliable. Also if it hadn't been this case and the professors have been unfair in providing the marks to get good reviews from students in the evaluation paper, then infact this will be hepful since the students who have actually worked hard to score well, will not be happy that some one else also getting higher score due to the unfair checking procedure. These students can instead give negetive remarks to the professor, making it transperent that there has been some unfair practice undertaken. Hence the evaluation procedure instead if more helpful in this ase.
Hence analysing the above possible counter points, we may conclude that there is no requirement for Omega university to the student evaluation of professors.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 17 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 489 350
No. of Characters: 2429 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.702 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.967 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.732 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 104 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.547 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.39 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.607 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 463, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ssibility that the scores are reliable. Also if it hadnt been this case and the prof...
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Line 7, column 474, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: hadn't
...hat the scores are reliable. Also if it hadnt been this case and the professors have ...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 732, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'someone'?
Suggestion: someone
...d to score well, will not be happy that some one else also getting higher score due to t...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 952, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...s been some unfair practice undertaken. Hence the evaluation procedure instead if mor...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...instead if more helpful in this ase. Hence analysing the above possible counter po...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, may, so, then, well, of course, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 13.6137724551 147% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2473.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06762295082 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79138303273 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.411885245902 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 798.3 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.7453812988 57.8364921388 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.866666667 119.503703932 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.5333333333 23.324526521 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35456464038 0.218282227539 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139195459408 0.0743258471296 187% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0906299787565 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22171705971 0.128457276422 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656202169467 0.0628817314937 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.7 14.3799401198 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.3550499002 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.72 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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