Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.

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Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance.

this topic raises the controversial issue of whether salary of teachers should be based on students’ academic performance or not. Indisputably, students’ academic performance is a lot dependent on how the teacher is teaching a subject. Nevertheless, linking teachers’ pay with students’ academic performance is an over stretch and not fair for the teachers. Thus, I generally disagree with the claim that teachers’ compensation should be driven by the academic performance of the students’ who the teacher teaches and would argue that teachers’ salary should be independent of the academic performance of their students.

First of all, salary of the teacher should be linked to the credentials that the teacher and the value the teacher brings to the educational institute. I would like to point out that the it is the educational qualification, teaching experience and research done in the subject that should be the factors which should drive a teacher’s salary. To illustrate, let us look at the example of an engineering institute where teachers of different level of qualification and specialization teach to the students pursuing engineering degree. there are junior professors who generally hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering and are paid the lowest salary amongst other professors. then there are professors who hold a master’s degree in engineering and are paid the median salary and then comes the department heads who are mostly PHD holders and are paid the highest salary in the institute. Consequently, it is pretty obvious that the higher the level of education a teacher has the better the pay scale.

Furthermore, if salary of teacher is dependent on students’ academic performance then if the students to not work hard enough during the exams and end up with poor results then not only the student but also the teacher will suffer the repercussion. Irrespective of how much effort the teacher has put on teaching the lessons it will finally come down to the results to determine if the teacher will be paid commensurate or not. Specifically, the academic performance of students can also depend on external factors such as health of the student, household situation. Consider a scenario where a teacher has done his best and have imparted the knowledge to students of the class and students have also worked hard throughout the year and studied diligently but during the examination time there was an outbreak of a disease due to which most of the students are sick and are unable to do well during the final examination as a result of this the teacher’s salary is impacted. Common sense tells us that salary of a teacher should be independent of the academic performance of the students.

One may argue that if there is no dependency on the students’ academic performance on teachers’ salaries then teachers would not put any effort to help improve performance of a student weak in studies. this argument does not hold water as most of the institute follow a practice of arranging extra supporting courses which are extension of the regular courses primarily focused on helping the students who are weak in studies.

In conclusion, although academic performance of students hinges on the teacher and the way the teacher imparts knowledge but that has nothing to do with the salary of the teacher. The salary is driven based on the educational qualification, teaching experience, number of subjects taught and other factors and hence teachers’ salaries must be independent of academic performance of the students.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, furthermore, hence, if, look, may, nevertheless, so, then, thus, well, in conclusion, such as, as a result, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 12.9106741573 194% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3061.0 2235.4752809 137% => OK
No of words: 576.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31423611111 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24182061828 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404513888889 0.4932671777 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 951.3 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.9219460934 60.3974514979 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.105263158 118.986275619 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3157894737 23.4991977007 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.47368421053 5.21951772744 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
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: 0.355031196451 0.243740707755 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.152811581605 0.0831039109588 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0892603388878 0.0758088955206 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.241881093584 0.150359130593 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0685399338438 0.0667264976115 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.7 14.1392134831 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.57 48.8420337079 67% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.1743820225 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.11 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => 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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