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 argument above suggests that fifteen years ago, Omega university implemented a procedure that asked students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all professors. Since then Omega professor has begun to a assign higher grades to their students such that the average student grade at omega has increased to thirty percent. Employer's believe that the grades are not due to student achievement but they given such that they grade their professor in a better way, As a result the Omega Students are not successful at getting jobs as Alpha university. The author suggests that Omega university should terminate student evaluation of professor.
Evaluating a professor is very beneficial these days. It helps the professor to explain things in a better way such that the students can understand the topics in much better way. As the author said that the Omega professor have begun to assign higher grades to their class after the evaluation of the professor. There is o solid proof that it is due to the new procedure. There might a case where the standards of the professor might have increased due which the students grades must have improved.
If at all the grades have increased due to the evaluation of procedure then the university can implement another rule by keeping the evaluation a secret. A student body can be created for respective university who in turns take the evaluation from other students secretly with out the knowledge of the professors and would recommend it to the university directly. By evaluating the professor the standards of a university increases because the professor's who are not good at teaching might have been removed and in place of them a good professor must have joined and began teaching or a strict warning might have given to the professor which helped them to teach the class in a better way.
The Author says that Omega graduates have not been successful at getting jobs. It might be true that few students must have failed to get the jobs but what if the others students have opted for further studies or what if few students wanted to continue the line of business which was started my there fathers or grandfather's.
The Job might also depend on the university. What if the university has failed to get more placements because of which the students got affected. Alpha university must has got more placements in their university comparatively to the Omega.
We cannot directly terminate student evaluation of professors as there is no solid proof that the grades might improve when evaluation is canceled the grades might decrease more as the professor might stop putting extra effort to make the class understand. There is no guarantee that the employer will recruit more students when the procedure is terminated.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 462 350
No. of Characters: 2281 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.636 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.937 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.666 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.824 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.278 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.582 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.153 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 172, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” 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.
...aching effectiveness of all professors. Since then Omega professor has begun to a ass...
^^^^^
Line 1, column 212, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...Since then Omega professor has begun to a assign higher grades to their students ...
^
Line 5, column 1, 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.
... students grades must have improved. If at all the grades have increased due to...
^^
Line 5, column 273, Rule ID: WITH_OUT[1]
Message: This word is usually written together. Did you mean 'without'?
Suggestion: without
...evaluation from other students secretly with out the knowledge of the professors and wou...
^^^^^^^^
Line 10, column 179, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...canceled the grades might decrease more as the professor might stop putting extra ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, then, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2319.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 462.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01948051948 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69789804956 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.402597402597 0.468620217663 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 734.4 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => 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: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.1343026513 57.8364921388 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.052631579 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3157894737 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.89473684211 5.70786347227 33% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.432615473074 0.218282227539 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153213005348 0.0743258471296 206% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120011363487 0.0701772020484 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227730674302 0.128457276422 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.138722425235 0.0628817314937 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => 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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