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 thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why 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 now terminate student evaluation of professors.
The primary reason for the Omega University to consider terminating student evaluation of professors is to tackle the inability of students to get a job, but this action might not be really fruitful in their main objective as there can be much more significant reasons of lack of employibility of their students. Before evaluating other prospective causes, this action will be at the best ineffective for the university.
One of the most important thing that Omega University needs to consider is, that whether beyond grade infaltion is there any other reason for the potential employers to not hire their graduates. The reasons here could be lack of required domain skillset or poor communcation skills and this could perhaps be the cause of higher recruitment from the Alpha University. It is important here for Omega to get a comprehensive feedback from the employers in regards to quality of students and what is it that they are lacking to be employable.
Another very important thing to consider here is that quality of teaching in the classes. If the professors as a whole are not providing quality education and helping students gain required skillsets, the students will not be able to provide a strong candidature during recruitment and aslo will be performing poorly during the tests, thus forcing professors to give them higher grades so that students do not evaluate them badly. It is therefore prtinent to hire better professors or improve the teaching methodology by use of more interactive mediums which will thus result in students understanding the subjects better and honestly scoring well during tests as well performing well during their interviews.
Omega University also needs to asses the quality of the tests students are provided. It could very well be the case that the tests indeed are quite easy, thus ensuring higher grades , leading to giving an impression of inflated grades to potential employers. It is also important to asses the type of questions asked in the student evaluation form. Questions should be more comprehensive and detailed , which should result in students giving honest feedbacks and more detailed evaluation can be carried out. This could eliminate students skewing their evaluation towards professors who are strict graders and encourage professors to assess the tests on its merit.
Omega Univeristy needs to reconsider the different plausible scenarios before taking any action, and only then they will be able to fix the root of cause of students being unable to fetch jobs.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK. need to argue:
Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University.
argument 3 -- not OK. need to argue:
To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should now terminate student evaluation of professors.
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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 409 350
No. of Characters: 2093 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.497 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.117 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.753 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.214 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.633 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.355 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.611 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 449, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: regarding; with regard to
...mprehensive feedback from the employers in regards to quality of students and what is it that...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 181, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... quite easy, thus ensuring higher grades , leading to giving an impression of infl...
^^
Line 4, column 400, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...hould be more comprehensive and detailed , which should result in students giving ...
^^
Line 5, column 146, Rule ID: OF_CAUSE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'of course' (=naturally)?
Suggestion: of course
... then they will be able to fix the root of cause of students being unable to fetch jobs....
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, honestly, if, really, so, then, therefore, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2124.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 409.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19315403423 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79639430335 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469437652812 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 665.1 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 78.1187283197 57.8364921388 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.714285714 119.503703932 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.2142857143 23.324526521 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => 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: 0.209027320537 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835078353729 0.0743258471296 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0488014698261 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123598557451 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.040715421964 0.0628817314937 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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