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.
Conceptual knowledge is the fundamental in exploring different aspects of a domain. A student should not limit his learning only to factual data. The prompt says that a student should be assessed based on underlying working behind a theory than memorizing it. In my opinion, I strongly agree for three reasons.
To begin with, facts are a consequence of a particular phenomena. The rainbow comprises of seven colors is a fact. But the seven colors are basically components of white light being diffracted is the reason behind the phenomena. Learning these sciences, actually stimulates the brain to think in a novel way. One cannot just limit it to a fact and deprive it of further exploration. A student should be made to stimulate his thinking in understanding the basic concepts of the universe to realize how many unknowns are yet to be discovered. If a student is taught a topic and isn't aware of it's recent developments, applications, etc. The student will slack off in catching up to the never ending growth. Thus, it's necessary to evaluate a student on a multiple factors to understand his surroundings better.
Further, a student can easily memorize the facts and qualify in the examination without actually learning much about the concept. For instance, suppose a student is asked to state the three laws of motion, the student can easily answer them if he has memorized them and pass. Instead, if the examiner asks the student a particular use case of newton's law, or give him a scenario and expect which law would be applicable, the student would be forced to think and apply these laws. In this way, the student may apply these very lessons in his real life when faced with abject situations. Memorization is temporary and cannot be a basis for how well a student has understood a particular concept. The above example, illustrates how a mere memorization of the facts isn't enough to judge the students' learning.
To add further, understanding a particular topic is the most rudimentary step to work in that domain. One needs to be well versed with all the details of a topic to enhance it or make it better. For example, if a student enrolled in a computer programming course doesn't understand the basics of it, and ends up passing it by mere cheating or memorization may end up bagging a job in a well known MNC. But, when the time comes to write programs for applications, he may end not performing his task at the expectation. The code written may not be totally valid or helpful in any case as the student had just scraped through his classes and concepts. The example illustrates how important the fundamentals and better understanding of the concept are to sustain in the environment, and how this starts at the roots where the proctors evaluate a student based on his conceptual understanding.
To conclude, one may say that factual knowledge is necessary to avoid certain mistakes which others would've gone through, but one can learn a lot more things by experimenting and committing mistakes than not trying at all. Thus, it's important that the evaluators question and test a students' conceptual prowess ahead of the facts memorized by them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'phenomenon'?
Suggestion: phenomenon
...facts are a consequence of a particular phenomena. The rainbow comprises of seven colors ...
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Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of
... of a particular phenomena. The rainbow comprises of seven colors is a fact. But the seven c...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a novel way" with adverb for "novel"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... actually stimulates the brain to think in a novel way. One cannot just limit it to a fact and...
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Suggestion: isn't
...red. If a student is taught a topic and isnt aware of its recent developments, appli...
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Suggestion: isn't
...es how a mere memorization of the facts isnt enough to judge the students learning. ...
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Suggestion: doesn't
...rolled in a computer programming course doesnt understand the basics of it, and ends u...
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Suggestion: would've
... to avoid certain mistakes which others wouldve gone through, but one can learn a lot m...
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
...t that the evaluators question and test a students conceptual prowess ahead of the facts m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, may, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, in any case, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2637.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 540.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88333333333 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88785534693 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498148148148 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 821.7 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0976275966 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6666666667 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220172486161 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0640968517688 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434627574842 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132723877742 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0411790350937 0.0667264976115 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => 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: 11.02 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.