Several years ago, Groveton College adopted an honor code, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated. Groveton's honor code replaced a system in which teachers closely monitored students. Under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. The honor code has proven far more successful: in the first year it was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Such evidence suggests that all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's. This change is sure to result in a dramatic decline in cheating among college students.
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.
The author recommended to adopt honor codes similar to groveton's for all college and university to reduce the number of cheating by studnts. The argument is based on observation of groveton's, however a number of questions need to be answered in order to judge the validity of this recommendation
Firstly, the author presumed that the honor code has proven far more successful than monitoring by teachers to decline in cheating among students based on the number of cheating for several years. To draw these conclusion, it seems not enough to assert that casual relation between honor codes and reduction of cheating is plausible because there might been other factors to influence the number of cheating. For example, there might been no change of frequence of cheating. if studunts do not want to report the cheating due to peer pressures, or if students do not observe to other students' cheating behabior during concentrating on their own exams, then there might be reduce the number of cheating reported by students. besides, if total number of studunts reduce, the number of cheating per student might have increase. therefore, the author need to provide more evidence pertaining causal relation honor codes and the number of students and total number of students before and after is necessary to justify author's recommendation.
Secondly, the author consider a recent survey reflects future behavior of the students correctly. however, the recents study might have only been an temporary result. it means that such intention for not to cheat during examination may not last for long enough. besides, there would several other factors related to cheat behavior such as situational and emotional environment. if studunts respond to restrain their cheat behavior, it does not mean stated intention translate into actual behavior. therefore, further and long-term survey or interview is necessary to evaluate the relation of intention and behavior for students.
Lastly, the augument supposed that all college and university are comparable to groveton college. Even if honor code has been successful at graveton's it does not automatically gurantee that every other school will yeild the same result by adopting the same policy. if groveton college has unique and exceptional traits (for example, missionary school for educationg pastors and priests), it might entails different results from groveton's. Accordingly, evidence related to characteristics of groveton's is need to in order to compare to general and average educational institutions.
In summary, questions pertaining to causalation bewteen honor code and the number of cheating behavior, the relation of intention and behavior, comparability of groveton's and general college and universities are crucial in assessing the author's claim .
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 433 350
No. of Characters: 2329 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.562 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.379 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.798 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 196 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 154 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 113 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 39.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 23.344 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.439 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.723 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.146 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, besides, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, then, therefore, for example, in summary, such as
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 : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2368.0 2260.96107784 105% => OK
No of words: 433.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4688221709 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87321183681 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482678983834 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 748.8 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => 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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.0952840005 57.8364921388 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.555555556 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0555555556 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27777777778 5.70786347227 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 23.0 5.25449101796 438% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.293513542696 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0986988913902 0.0743258471296 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609919611636 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170510081177 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344443471523 0.0628817314937 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.3799401198 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 98.500998004 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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