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.
Omega University has decided to terminate student evaluation of professors in order to enable its garduate students to secure better jobs. This is based on evidence that grades percent has increased by 30% which led Recruits to believe that students grades are not accurate and inflated, and Apha Unversity students are more sucessfull. We also need answers to below three questions to evaluate this recommendation.
What if remarks from Potential employers on evaluation have other factors than grades of students in student achievement? There may be other factors which led to poor performance of students. Students may be good at subject knowledge but weak in practical knowledge. This might influenced recruits to not recruit the students of Omega University.
What if Alpha University has also implemented the student evaluation of professors? There may be increase in grades for Alpha University also. Then, there may be other factors that have led the students in Alpha University to perform good in job selection. There may be no influence of grades in selection process. Hence, the termnation of student evaluation may be recommeneded if the above points are true.
What if the faculty has changed in Omega University? There may be change in professors in Omega University. They might have not been as effective as the previous professors are in the explanation of concepts to the students. This might have caused in students poor performance in job selection.
With the answers provided to the questions, we can evaluate the arguement of terminating the student evaluation of professors in order to enable its graduate students to secure jobs of Omega University.
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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: 17 15
No. of Words: 267 350
No. of Characters: 1381 1500
No. of Different Words: 118 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.042 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.172 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.854 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.706 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.061 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.386 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.586 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 138, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...increase in grades for Alpha University also. Then, there may be other factors that ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1427.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 267.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34456928839 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04229324003 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94562561978 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 204.123752495 60% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.456928838951 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 453.6 705.55239521 64% => 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: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.6470200728 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.9411764706 119.503703932 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7058823529 23.324526521 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.05882352941 5.70786347227 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223418795792 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0902395896557 0.0743258471296 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533442566271 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148034283183 0.128457276422 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0226935029806 0.0628817314937 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.3799401198 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 48.3550499002 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => 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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