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 argument raised in the case of Omega university that the policy facilitating students to evaluate the professors' teaching effectiveness should be terminated to enable its graduates to secure better jobs. The argument may seem right at first sight but there are many loopholes in it. Many facts and considerations are not fully listed in it to derive a justifiable conclusion.
Firstly, there are no statistics provided about the university how many graduates have got jobs in the course of 15 years. Also, no credence can be laid upon the fact that grade averages have risen to 30 percent since no information about the previous years' total number of students is given in the argument given here. There is a possibility that the number of students enrolled in the last years has increased than the year it started this provision of evaluation. Or maybe the students scoring very high marks have grown significantly than previous years which has led to a high change in the aggregate.
Another thing which must be taken into consideration is the policy's effectiveness. It is possible that the professors 15 years back were strict and evaluated the students with asperity. We do not know whether the same professors for which the policy was taken out are still a part of University staff or not. Also, there is a possibility that the University provides the courses which are easy to score for students in the current years, which has led to an increase in overall grade average. Simply declaring the grading as inflated and inaccurate is not right. Also, there is a possibility that students are actually performing well because of the improved methodology of professors based on students' evaluation of their teaching techniques.
One more consideration taken by the Omega university to state their conclusion is based on the comparison with the students of Alpha university. Comparison can only be done when the curriculum of course and grading structure, as well as the number of students enrolled in grad school, are the same. Even if the above elements are the same for both the universities, we cannot evaluate the value of jobs attained by the students of both the universities. It is possible that the students of Omega university are ambitious and might have applied to big companies which are difficult to get in. Since we are not aware of the placement statistics and the numerical data of student enrollment, we cannot conclude the fact that Alpha university students are more successful than the Omega university students.
Thus, no conclusion can be led upon the argument since many facts are unknown. Considering factual data such as student count, placement stats and course structure, in this case, can help in deriving the conclusion. Mere observing the fact that the average has risen significantly should not determine the whole story about the Omega university students' success. As success comes after many failures, its value should not be traced based on conjecture.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 494 350
No. of Characters: 2459 1500
No. of Different Words: 218 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.714 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.978 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.78 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 156 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 132 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 111 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 67 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.455 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.787 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.529 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 695, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...oved methodology of professors based on students evaluation of their teaching techniques...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, if, may, so, still, thus, well, another thing, of course, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2518.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 494.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0971659919 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84157751424 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455465587045 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 818.1 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1540857112 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.454545455 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4545454545 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.18181818182 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240959023497 0.218282227539 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0719450057748 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570025353189 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135568327323 0.128457276422 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447670699755 0.0628817314937 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 98.500998004 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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