Teachers' salaries should be based on the academic performance of their students.
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.
Teachers are the backbone in the personal and professional development of a student. The word “student” is not justified, had there been no “teachers”, and every teacher was a student at one point of their lives. While critics argue that a teacher’s remuneration should be based on the academic performance of their students, it seems to be a highly scrupulous statement. Without proper justifications and bolstering by facts and figures, adjudicating on someone’s financial capabilities seems to be fallacious. Also, a student’s academic performance depends on myriad factors; some of them being peer pressure, personal or family conditions, affordability of books and other essential study materials and heedlessness. Let us look at some of the factors, which dictates the academic performance of a student, and also factors which contributes towards the salary and other financial gains of a teacher.
A teacher can be a professor at a prestigious Tier 1 university or Tier 2 and 3 universities, or at a high school, since we are considering academic performances only. A professor’s salary encompasses base salary, research grants from various organizations such National Science Foundation or any other premier research organizations, and consultancy fees. A class may consist of hundreds of students, and it is considered a teacher’s responsibility to keep a track of individual student’s academic performance. But, a teacher can not force a student to study after class hours and also has no control over the ways in which the students are going to spend the rest of the day. Let’s consider two students, A and B. While student A finishes the assignments on time after going back to his/her apartment, student B procrastinates and dawdles from student A. Also, early completion of assignments leaves student A with time to revise the day’s classwork and to prepare a little extra of the syllabus. On the other hand, student B lingers to finish the assignments on time, let alone extra preparation. Obviously, in such scenarios, their professors are not in control of their academic performances.
Peer pressure is another substantial instrument in measuring the academic performance of a student and also should not be culpable of negative results only. Let us consider the same students A and B. Let’s say each of them have separate social circles. On weekends, student A spends most of his available time on studies with his friends, while on the other hand, student B spends most of the time, with his respective social circles, on trivial things such as clubbing or any other time wasters. It is clearly useless to compare the academic performances of these students and also student A is bound to perform better considering the number of hours he puts into his academics.
Another considerable factor in dictating a student’s academic performance is his/her set of circumstances. Ability to handle exam pressure or death of a family member on the previous day of the exam or even on the same day of the exam, may lead to disappointing performance from him/her. Let us consider student A. He/she is the topper of the batch with exceptionally high GPA and is always considered to be brilliant student by all his/her professors or teachers. Now, on the week of the senior year exam, he/she receives death news of his/her parent or parents. Obviously, it is hard to imagine the on spot mental condition of him/her. Consequentially, he/she may not perform as expected and not up to the mark of his/her previous year’s performance. In such scenarios, isn’t it dishonorable to lambaste the professor for the student A’s poor performance?
A careful study of the above-mentioned examples and presented situations, will clearly indicate that a teacher’s salary should not be based on the academic performances of the students. Also, considering the situations that a student goes through, a teacher is not be blamed or held responsible for the student’s academic performances.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 736, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...erials and heedlessness. Let us look at some of the factors, which dictates the academic pe...
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Line 3, column 358, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ch organizations, and consultancy fees. A class may consist of hundreds of studen...
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Line 3, column 731, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'A finish' or simply 'finishes'?
Suggestion: A finish; Finishes
...er two students, A and B. While student A finishes the assignments on time after going bac...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r of hours he puts into his academics. Another considerable factor in dictating...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, while, such as, 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: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3385.0 2235.4752809 151% => OK
No of words: 645.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2480620155 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.03952876749 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26072497831 2.79657885939 117% => OK
Unique words: 294.0 215.323595506 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455813953488 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1036.8 704.065955056 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2707056263 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.833333333 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.1 5.21951772744 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235558596252 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0725064789729 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0539168091599 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162697232399 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0636824311735 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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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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 736, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...erials and heedlessness. Let us look at some of the factors, which dictates the academic pe...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 358, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ch organizations, and consultancy fees. A class may consist of hundreds of studen...
^
Line 3, column 731, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'A finish' or simply 'finishes'?
Suggestion: A finish; Finishes
...er two students, A and B. While student A finishes the assignments on time after going bac...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r of hours he puts into his academics. Another considerable factor in dictating...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, while, such as, 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: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 31.0 14.8657303371 209% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3385.0 2235.4752809 151% => OK
No of words: 645.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2480620155 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.03952876749 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26072497831 2.79657885939 117% => OK
Unique words: 294.0 215.323595506 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455813953488 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1036.8 704.065955056 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2707056263 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.833333333 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.1 5.21951772744 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235558596252 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0725064789729 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0539168091599 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162697232399 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0636824311735 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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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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.