The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College, a private institution, to the college's governing committee.
"We recommend that Grove College preserve its century-old tradition of all-female education rather than admit men into its programs. It is true that a majority of faculty members voted in favor of coeducation, arguing that it would encourage more students to apply to Grove. But 80 percent of the students responding to a survey conducted by the student government wanted the school to remain all female, and over half of the alumnae who answered a separate survey also opposed coeducation. Keeping the college all female will improve morale among students and convince alumnae to keep supporting the college financially."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Grove college is making the decision to remain an all female college based primarily on a student survey and alumnae survey, and is disregarding the majority of the faculty members, who would prefer to change to a co-ed style campus.
The student survey resulted in 80% of students taking the survey believing that Grove College should remain an all female campus. The recommendation, however, does not state what percent of students actually participated in this survey. Eighty percent is a large majority, so if most students completed this survey then the recommenders stating that keeping the college as all female would improve morale among students is likely accurate. However, if only a small subset of students actually completed this survey then it is essentially meaningless with regards to how the larger student body feels about this topic. In this case, perhaps having a mandatory meeting with a vote would be a better way to find out how most students feel about the proposal.
The recommenders also state that they have decided to keep the college all female because they want alumnae to continue their financial support of the college. Again, we do not know how many alumnae completed the survey or if they are the same alumnae who donate to the college. Perhaps the people who donate the most, did not have time to fill out the survey and in actuality do not care if the college remains all female. The faculty predict that admitting men would encourage more students to apply to Grove - could their application fees outweigh the potential loss in alumnae support? Would the newer alumnae, grateful for the new opportunity to attend Grove donate more than current alumnae?
With the flawed surveys, the recommendation by the president and administrative staff of Grove College appears inconclusive. They need to conduct further research on this matter before making the decision to keep Grove an all female campus or to integrate men onto the campus.
Comments
e-rater score 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: 13 15
No. of Words: 326 350
No. of Characters: 1612 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.249 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.945 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.531 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 131 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 45 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.522 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.398 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.61 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.155 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 437, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'predicts'.
Suggestion: predicts
...college remains all female. The faculty predict that admitting men would encourage more...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, if, regarding, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.6327345309 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 16.3942115768 18% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1650.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 326.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06134969325 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60496613293 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.51226993865 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.905530223 57.8364921388 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.923076923 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0769230769 23.324526521 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.69230769231 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.210853138818 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0943176108826 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0938165767464 0.0701772020484 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164854557529 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0600190913815 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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