Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Giving the complexity of teaching profession, educators involved in the industry carry different mission on their shoulders, thus, there shouldn’t be a single scale to measure how they should be compensated. While most teachers are advocate to the halo and virtue of dedicating to groom and inspire the future generation, some believed that they should be paid based on their capability to help students in achieving higher credentials. I conceded that academic merits are good mean to measure the reward for teacher if grading is the only goal that the institutions are aiming for. Otherwise, teachers should be paid according to the key performance index constructed by the institution.
First of all, we shall consider when academic performance is too trivial to be measured, such as those in kinder garden and elementary schooling. Commonly, elementary institutions, instead of seeking exquisite teaching credentials, favor candidates who can delegate persona as being patience, compassion and enthusiastic to work with young kids. Therefore, when it comes to setting up their salary range, it should be aligned with the pre-set criteria for employment. By that I mean teacher’s compensation should be founded on their potency to aspire interest and provide a productive learning environment. However, we could see that the paradigm is shifting, conspicuously in Asia. In order to ensure the competitiveness of their children even at very young age, Asian parents prevail academic performance over passions and interests, which I strongly oppose to.
Considering the issue in the context where academic performance does become essential for student to advance in their higher education or professional career, I still disagree with the proposition of defining wage range based on students’ performance. When it comes to higher education, teaching is less likely to be the sole task while lecturers are probably assigned with handful of responsibilities. Let’s take a look at an example of a standard KPI (Key Performance Index) system in Malaysian tertiary sector. Besides preparing and conducting daily lecture, the teachers are mandated to participate in research project, help organize workshops and conferences, as well as securing a number of publications. With such complex matrix of work scheme, expecting them to focus merely on accelerating students’ performance is implausible as students are mature enough to motivate themselves. Conspicuously, it is unfair to decide how much they should be compensated just by this single mean.
On the other hand, some might argue that teacher’s salary should be directly proportional to the student’s performance as they believe money could act as motivator for better teaching quality, thereby better learning result. However, it has never been the case as academic proficiency is the output of combined effort from both teachers and students. The best example we could refer to is of public university, where teacher’s compensation is meager to start with, are still able to produce graduates of high merits. The logic behind is that most students admitted to public institution are survivors of rugged selection schemes, who are autonomous and self-motivating to acquire knowledge themselves. Therefore, by adjusting the teacher’s compensation, we shall expect not much variation in terms of student’s learning performance.
In summary, as I cogently argue above, teacher’s salary should not be weighed merely on the student’s academic performance but other measures are to be taken in to account as well.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to result'
Suggestion: to result
...aching quality, thereby better learning result. However, it has never been the case as...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...of student's learning performance. In summary, as I cogently argue above, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, look, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, i mean, in summary, such as, as well as, first of all, to start with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 12.9106741573 186% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3084.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 549.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6174863388 5.05705443957 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84053189512 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.28636623823 2.79657885939 118% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553734061931 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 970.2 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.35082265 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.181818182 118.986275619 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9545454545 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63636363636 5.21951772744 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.335365006641 0.243740707755 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.096999334698 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626333483033 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212990668283 0.150359130593 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0260266959973 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: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.8420337079 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.61 12.1639044944 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.89 8.38706741573 118% => OK
difficult_words: 176.0 100.480337079 175% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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