Educators should base their assessment of students' learning not on students' grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position
Assessment is a way in which teachers try to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each student. It is not a process where one’s memorization capacity is measure. Through application-based assessment, a teacher can understand the gaps or loopholes in a student’s understanding of the concept and help the student further. Therefore, according to me, I would agree with the statement for two main reasons which I will further explore in this essay.
Firstly, application-based assessment helps teachers in understanding the depth of knowledge a student has been able to grasp. The application of an idea acts as a clear indicator of the extent of a student’s understanding. To exemplify, A teacher introduces the concept of friction in class. The teacher explains only the theoretical concepts and formulas with illustrative diagrams. A student might be able to grasp the concept of friction and be able to solve all the sums correctly but when somebody asks the student why does a rolling ball come to a stop? The student is perplexed and is not able to come up with an answer. This shows a deficiency in the student’s understanding of the concept and his/her failure to apply the concepts learned in class in real life. Though the student might be getting an A+ grade in-class tests but if he/she is not able to replicate and identify those forces in real life the concept of knowledge remains incomplete. The teachers need to ensure that a student can apply the concepts learned in theory and application-based assessment provides an efficient way to do so.
Moreover, many proven studies are claiming that application-based learning leads to better understanding and memory retention of the concepts. For example, if in a class students are taught about Newton’s three law of motion and then they are given a project to illustrate the same through a model. This project will not only increase the creativity of students but also will help them in understanding every detail which they might not have thought in the class. The students might come up with questions and doubts which did not cross their minds while the teacher was teaching. The teacher can easily evaluate students based on their models and further clear each students doubt leading to complete knowledge.
Admittedly, many students have a great grasping power and can understand concepts faster. They might consider the application-based method in which the same concept is repeated in different ways but, application-based methods are considered a better method to grasp and understand the functioning and mechanism to the core.
To sum up, though grasping a concept is the first step to learning anything new but if students can not apply those learned concepts in the real world it will be a failure of the entire education system . Assessing students, through application will help teachers in evaluating whether a student has understood the concept or has just mugged up the bookish text.
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...a failure of the entire education system . Assessing students, through application...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, moreover, so, then, therefore, while, for example, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2494.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 487.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12114989733 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69766713281 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0933773569 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462012320329 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 738.9 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.7842192033 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.363636364 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1363636364 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13636363636 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.2851222567 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0980009980342 0.0831039109588 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406982352838 0.0758088955206 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174837836452 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0260255344585 0.0667264976115 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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