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 states that the grades at Omega university have become inflated as teachers are giving high grades to get a better evaluation from the students. As a result, employers are reluctant to hire Omega university students as thus, the process of evaluation of professors by students should be terminated. However, this assertion is based on some unwarranted assumptions, which to make the argument more persuasive need to be clarified.
First of all, the rise in grade has negatively been related to Professors' evaluation, assuming the teachers are giving away good grades to
get a good evaluation. But in reality, this may not be the case. Maybe the university has taken some steps that contributed to the rise in grades. Perhaps they have become selective in their admission process, admitting students with only high CGPA and good grades, consequently getting a good outcome. In contrast with the argument, maybe the professors have actually become more serious and active in teaching and hence, students are doing better. So, in that case, terminating the evaluation process may go against the universities' interest.
Secondly, It may be true that there is actually inflation in grades but student's evaluation may not be the culprit behind this. Maybe the university is trying to get more students, trying to earn more money that's why they are giving away good grades to the student or it's
just that their student evaluation process is faulty which doesn't evaluate a student's potential thoroughly. To get back their reputation they may need to examine their curriculum and methodologies rather than terminating the evaluation process.
Finally, maybe it's true that graduates from a nearby Alpha university are getting more jobs but it may not just because employers are are not willing to recruit from Omega university. Perhaps, Alpha graduates have skills that are more practical and marketable. Maybe nearby recruiters require science and maths graduates while most of the Omega graduates are Arts graduates. If this is the case, then contrast in supply and demand is the main reason behind Omega graduates' failure in a job, not the employers' false notion about so-called grade inflation.
Student's evaluation of professors may or may not be the case behind the grade inflammation or in all potentiality, there is no inflation at all. Maybe the improvement in grades which is a result of the combined efforts of the students, teachers, and the university is being subjected to skepticism unfairly.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 406 350
No. of Characters: 2068 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.489 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.094 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.741 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.3 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.029 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.332 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.605 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Get
...achers are giving away good grades to get a good evaluation. But in reality, this...
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Line 7, column 307, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: contrast,
...consequently getting a good outcome. In contrast with the argument, maybe the professors...
^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 208, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...ore students, trying to earn more money thats why they are giving away good grades to...
^^^^^
Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Just
...way good grades to the student or its just that their student evaluation process i...
^^^^
Line 13, column 60, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...dent evaluation process is faulty which doesnt evaluate a students potential thoroughl...
^^^^^^
Line 17, column 131, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: are
...s but it may not just because employers are are not willing to recruit from Omega unive...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, in contrast, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2144.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 405.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29382716049 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8172136194 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.459259259259 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 671.4 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.1606494274 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.111111111 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.27777777778 5.70786347227 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179383095531 0.218282227539 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0624083542275 0.0743258471296 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418558268557 0.0701772020484 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101099853162 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0246301163673 0.0628817314937 39% => 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: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => 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: 13.7 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => 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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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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