A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer.
Whether all schools should follow the same curriculum is one of the most important issues in Taiwan in recent days. The common curriculum, which is an educational policy, has required all schools to use the same material at the same grade level to alleviate students' pressure over the past three years. This policy also tries to help teachers with their work, thereby leading many educators to support it. For example, a statement urging the Taiwan government to pass this policy was released this month from the teacher union of the senior high school. The common curriculum is now prevalent in the educational field that comes from schools, but a change in the related policy that permits them is under consideration. Although many teachers and politicians agree with these arguments, this requirement may be unnecessary and could have a great social impact in the future.
People in favor of implementing the same material claim that the education system will improve with this change. This argument is based on the assumption that if stressed-out students are forced to study the same curriculum, they will not have to do as much work in their classes and can instead do everything whenever they want to. However, there is a lack of evidence to support this claim. In practice, this effort does not depend on the circumstances in which students live to consider real obstacles to their study. Both social and economic factors have the potential to unexpectedly increase students' workload, upending the regular pattern for students to study the textbook. For instance, the teaching abilities of the teacher are crucial to the learning process of the students. If there is a lack of teachers in rural areas, students will not benefit from the policy that requires schools to use the same material. Although some people may argue that this problem can be solved in other ways, the government should be cautious in its policy-making until a solution appears. It is clear that this requirement is not conclusive but oversimplified.
In addition, it is also mentioned that the same curriculum policy ensures fair competition in the country. Some supporters said that the same curriculum helps students who come from rural areas and eliminates the educational inequality among city and county children. However, this claim is not conclusive because the same curriculum is not a solution for these students in the real world; in contrast, this policy has not had either a positive or negative effect after some countries implemented it. The new experimental study also shows that there is no significant difference in academic performance between students who use the same curriculum and those who do not, implying that the same curriculum may have a limited effect on reducing inequality. On the other hand, this policy may enlarge the gap in students' performance between city' and county' students after the government announces the same curriculum will be adopted in the future, thereby increasing the inequality for students because the parents from the city will send their kids to cram school to learn supplementary materials. For instance, both Japan and South Korea have adopted the same curriculum; nevertheless, the inequality between city and county is growing because many countries are so remote that any students who come from there have no chance of going to cram school to study supplementary materials. Despite the claim that the same curriculum could improve the social equality of education, experts and officials need to provide as much evidence as they can.
The final argument that people often support for using the same curriculum is that this policy can improve students' performance. However, using the same curriculum is the most ineffective way to educate students, which even procures a negative impact on their test scores. Since the learning process of students could have been impacted by other factors, such as the degree of difficulty of the course material, cohort competition, and the teaching skill of the teacher. Even if the government implements this policy nationwide for this reason, the children will still have poor scores in school. It is obvious that this argument is not reasonable.
It should be evident that there are no good reasons for Taiwan to use the same curriculum. On the contrary, this policy procures negative results either in the school or educational system. Moreover, teachers may have more work to do in planning the course following a national standard. If the Taiwan government passes this bill, both students and teachers will experience more pressure in schools. Finally, although having many versions of textbooks at the same grade level is a huge problem, issuing this requirement is a futile measure in the real world. All things considered, I think that there is no need for the government to tightly force the schools to adhere to this policy.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, for example, for instance, i think, in addition, in contrast, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.3162921348 221% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 95.0 58.6224719101 162% => OK
Nominalization: 31.0 12.9106741573 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4114.0 2235.4752809 184% => OK
No of words: 800.0 442.535393258 181% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1425 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.31829589694 4.55969084622 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7349485827 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 333.0 215.323595506 155% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.41625 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1297.8 704.065955056 184% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.0101001874 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.666666667 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2424242424 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.39393939394 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210995675645 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0601254637678 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415116589128 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131390907192 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0245476859469 0.0667264976115 37% => 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: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 176.0 100.480337079 175% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Whether all schools should follow the sa...
^^
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” 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.
Whether all schools should follow the same curr...
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Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e a great social impact in the future. People in favor of implementing the same...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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... is not conclusive but oversimplified. In addition, it is also mentioned that t...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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... provide as much evidence as they can. The final argument that people often sup...
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Suggestion:
... that this argument is not reasonable. It should be evident that there are no g...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, for example, for instance, i think, in addition, in contrast, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 25.0 11.3162921348 221% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 95.0 58.6224719101 162% => OK
Nominalization: 31.0 12.9106741573 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4114.0 2235.4752809 184% => OK
No of words: 800.0 442.535393258 181% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1425 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.31829589694 4.55969084622 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7349485827 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 333.0 215.323595506 155% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.41625 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1297.8 704.065955056 184% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.0101001874 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.666666667 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2424242424 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.39393939394 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210995675645 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0601254637678 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415116589128 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131390907192 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0245476859469 0.0667264976115 37% => 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: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 176.0 100.480337079 175% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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.