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 disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
I agree the claim that group assignments should replace traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses. However, I do not agree that group assignments to replace substantial amount of lecture-based instruction, for the following reasons.
Group assignment is a new way of teaching that start being trendy since past decade. It was designed to help students developing their active and critical thinking. Students that learn new knowledge through group assignment may have stronger motivation to learn. Since they can actually attend the process of learning, instead of sitting in the classroom and listening what professor want to teach them. For example, in Taiwan, lecture-based instruction teaching is still the major method that adopted by professors. Notwithstanding, no matter how much effort that professors put in their lecture, there are always students that can fall asleep or skip the class. Mostly because they think that instructors' lecture material are tepid, thus, they lose the their interest to that course.
Moreover, group assignment can also make students have profounder memory of what they learned in the class. Because they learn the knowledge actively. Learning through interacting with class members, students switch their position from passive learner to active learner, and it could stimulate different part of brain when they are discussing the topic with their group members. At the same time, students may experience peers pressure that motivate them to keep learning, since the whole group's performance may decide all the group members' grades.
However, replacing substantial traditional lecture-based instruction could also entail some problem. Since when students just get into the university, they are like a blank paper, they need someone who has experience to introduce them to academic world. And usually people who lead them are instructors. Without lecture-based instruction, students may have to explore the studying methods, and absorb knowledge themselves. It may sounds normal that college students have to depend on themselves to study, yet without someone professional to lead them, the learning process may not be as efficient as people expected. Therefore, in my opinion, lecture-based instruction still has its own value to exist, especially for freshman in college and university.
In conclusion, despite group assignments could motivate student to learn, and develop their ability of critical thinking, without lecture-based instruction student may not be capable to learn efficiently and effectively through group assignments.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 752, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'their'?
Suggestion: the; their
...ure material are tepid, thus, they lose the their interest to that course. Moreover, g...
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Line 5, column 109, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...mory of what they learned in the class. Because they learn the knowledge actively. Lear...
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Line 5, column 490, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'groups'' or 'group's'?
Suggestion: groups'; group's
... them to keep learning, since the whole groups performance may decide all the group me...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 58.6224719101 87% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2229.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 388.0 442.535393258 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.74484536082 5.05705443957 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95399392059 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551546391753 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 652.5 704.065955056 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.6512339435 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.45 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.65 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.325567357904 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108017031136 0.0831039109588 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0950980348203 0.0758088955206 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217757782949 0.150359130593 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0954071128322 0.0667264976115 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.01 12.1639044944 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.