Claim: Group assignments that students must work together to complete should replace a substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses.
Reason: It is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic and to achieve a common goal.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
It is said that traditional lecture-based instruction is required to be replaced by group assignments. This is because in this way students can better learn about cooperation. I agree with this point of view to some extent.
On the one hand, I can explain why it is important for students to be prepared and taught about for aspects of life that require co-operation. In the adult working life many students need to know how to work with others and share their experience and knowledge. They should know how to cooperate with like-minded people and even those with different and opposite ideas. Students should be prepared for this subject from an early age. Teachers can help students to learn about cooperation by giving group homework. In this way, students with their classmates try to help each other to know about their weaknesses and resolve them. Also, through the group assignments, students can improve some of their skills, such as communication, cooperative and team collaboration skills. After a while, they can gain more from cooperation with their peers, as they can make friends and gain more respect and kindness from others.
However, I also believe that group assignment cannot solely replace traditional lecture-based instruction. In other words, both method complement each other and they should be used together. A group work can be useful when teachers give enough information to students and answer their questions about the lessons and any problem that they have in their academic lessons. Moreover, I believe that in addition to cooperation, students need to learn about competition that teachers or lecturers can provide enough conditions for this subject. Reinforcement of sense of competitiveness is necessary, as completion is one of the most important source of motivation. In the traditional lecture- base, teachers try to teach something orally to students and then for some lessons such as math, they can make groups and give some math problems to them and introduce a prize for the first group that can correctly solve the math questions in a short time. In this way, they not only can benefit from the traditional method of teaching but also can learn about the fair way of competition and the advantages of cooperation.
Through the lecture-based method children are though about the benefits of competition and cooperation. As, both of them are necessary for working adult life. For example, by have good cooperative skill, students learn how to work in team, how to follow the rules and how to share things. This skill is so important in some famous companies; such as google which has been created based on teamwork. Having a sense of competitiveness is important because we can see that one of the secrets of success is to try to be better than other and outdo the rivals. would somebody like the founder of Microsoft named Bill gates was successful as he is now without competition and ambitious attitude? Absolutely no, competition motivates people to improve themselves to overcome their rivals and become different.
In conclusion, in my view, both methods must be used with each other and no one can help children solely.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 557, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Would
...better than other and outdo the rivals. would somebody like the founder of Microsoft ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, so, then, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in my view, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2654.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 522.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08429118774 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85003136172 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463601532567 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 807.3 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0619634351 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.076923077 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0769230769 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15384615385 5.21951772744 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234730551268 0.243740707755 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0750842249746 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557442176493 0.0758088955206 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135419856982 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0600323230897 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.8 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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