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.
In the present world where we collect countless information every second, we are bombarded with multitude of facts by the news outlets, by the peers or by the digital media. While we understand the ideas behind these facts for some, we fail to grasp the whole context of a fact may be due to our incompetence or the field is simply large to understand the fact completely. The prompt recommends that educators should assess students' learning based on their ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts of those facts and not merely by the grasp of facts by the students. I agree with the prompt for the follwoing reasons.
Firstly, there are two ways of learing, namely - rot memorization, and learning by understanding the under lying concepts. While rot memorization can make the students get by in the short term, this method of learning has a determintal affect on the students in the long run. Students have the ability to grasp a large amount of facts in a short period of time. But such learning will not be resourceful when the students have to apply their learning to solve a real world problem. Mere memorizaiton of the facts does not make the students realize the application of the facts in a real world setting and such learning is no better than not learning anything as it serve the purpose of learning. On the other hand, when the students are in a postion to interpret and explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that the facts illustrate, the students will have understood the totality of the facts and thus, help them judge which fact can be used in which scenario. Thus, understanding the ideas, trends and concepts that are kindred to the facts can help the students fully assimilate the facts and use that knowledge in solving real world problems.
Secondly, ecouraging the students to understand and evaluate the facts with the help of ideas, trends and concepts can exhort the students to think analytical rather than just absorb what has been stated. This kind of learning will unconsiously imbibe into the students the skill of analytical thinking which is very important for a person to make a considerably impact in today's world. One's lifetime is not sufficient to learn everything upfront and then try thier hand at solving problems that the world faces. Hence, it is wise to learn only so much that can aid to get started without much hassle. In such a system of learning, apart for teaching facts, it is important for the teachers to encourage students to analyze them by studying the ideas, trends and concepts rather than just rot memorization of the facts as students will get to practice the skill of analytical thinking. Analytical thinking will help the students understand various problems in their profession and tackle them head on rather than turning their back on them. Thus, making the students understand ideas, trends, and concepts behind the facts will help them improve thier analytical thinking ability.
However, in the realms of our discussion, there might be an exception that cannot be overlooked. It may not be possible to understand every detail of all the facts that one learns in their education as some facts can be too complicated for their age or they may not be that imporant. However, it is imperative for the students to learn such facts so that they can help them understand other important facts and hence, it is sometimes fine to memorize a few facts only for the sake of larger benifits.
To recapitulate, it is important that the educators assess the students based on their ability to explain the ideas, trends and concepts that help better understand the facts as such learning can make students comprehend the value of the facts and imporves thier analytical thinking. Having said that, it is sometimes beneficial for the students to only study a fact as the fact may be too complicated to understand or it is completely related to a different field.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 237, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'effect'?
Suggestion: effect
...is method of learning has a determintal affect on the students in the long run. Students ...
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Line 5, column 347, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...rasp a large amount of facts in a short period of time. But such learning will not be resource...
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Line 8, column 349, Rule ID: A_RB_NN[1]
Message: You used an adverb ('considerably') instead an adjective, or a noun ('impact') instead of another adjective.
... is very important for a person to make a considerably impact in todays world. Ones lifetime is not s...
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Line 8, column 388, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: One's
... a considerably impact in todays world. Ones lifetime is not sufficient to learn eve...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3276.0 2235.4752809 147% => OK
No of words: 672.0 442.535393258 152% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.875 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.09145979004 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64022748321 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.383928571429 0.4932671777 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 975.6 704.065955056 139% => 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: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.6313350519 60.3974514979 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.434782609 118.986275619 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.2173913043 23.4991977007 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.17391304348 5.21951772744 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.367399116558 0.243740707755 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132634182444 0.0831039109588 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102824179494 0.0758088955206 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249157011267 0.150359130593 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0677676145429 0.0667264976115 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.62 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 11.8971910112 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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