Claim: When planning courses, educators should take into account the interests and suggestions of their students.
Reason: Students are more motivated to learn when they are interested in what they are studying.
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.
Nowadays, there is a plethora of courses and programmes available for students to study. This prompt gives a suggestion on how the programmes could be improved and a reason supporting it. I mostly agree with the claim for the given reason along with an additional reason but I do concede that it may not practically be possible to design the courses taking into account everyone’s interests and suggestions.
To begin with, I agree with the given reason as it completely supports the claim. Students will definitely like it because it is something of their interest. For example, when students give their suggestions to the educators, the educators know what exactly the students are expecting out of the course so they design it in such a way that the students’ inputs are taken into account. Additionally, it will improve the grades of the students because now they are not just rote learning things, but paying more attention during the classes and understanding the concepts better. For example, a child is more likely to watch a show they like with complete attention rather than one they are being forcefully made to watch. Hence, I feel that the given reason makes sense and is valid.
Secondly, when courses are designed as per the students, they feel their voices are heard and they are being taught what exactly they want, so they eventually develop respect for the subject and the course and study well. They may also feel that they are obligated to pay attention irrespective of how good or bad the course may have turned out to be because it is what they asked for. To give an example, I buy a T-shirt from the internet after convincing my parents to let me purchase it, but it turns out the T-shirt isn’t of good quality and I cannot return it. In such a case, I am obligated to use the T-shirt even if I don’t like it because my parents gave me permission to buy it and also because I asked for it in the first place. In the same way, the students will study those courses because they wanted those courses.
However, I feel that the number of students in a programme may be way too high and it may not be practically possible to design the courses taking into account everyone’s interests and suggestions. For instance, my class had 60 students, each having a different career goal- Robotics, Automation expert, Data Analyst, etc.. Even in the field of Robotics, there are many subdomains and catering to everyone’s needs will not be possible as it may mess up the entire course curriculum. For this reason, the claim is not very practical.
In conclusion, the claim discusses a very complex suggestion and there are no easy answers to it. However, I feel that it may be possible to have customised courses for small classes but not for very large classes, although the motivation factor will still remain.
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: 19 15
No. of Words: 496 350
No. of Characters: 2274 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.719 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.585 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.519 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.105 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.397 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 322, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...cs, Automation expert, Data Analyst, etc.. Even in the field of Robotics, there ar...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, well, for example, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, of course, to begin with, in the first place, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2355.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 494.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76720647773 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63547593736 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453441295547 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 730.8 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.0940950546 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.75 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.45 5.21951772744 181% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => 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: 0.321719937576 0.243740707755 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100223091971 0.0831039109588 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0842943104605 0.0758088955206 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177064135099 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0870717485848 0.0667264976115 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 100.480337079 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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