Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student's performance. Continual assessment such as course work and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
It is believed that unlike the official end of term examination, continuous assessments like tests and research works are not adequate test of student's intellectual proficiency. While this view is best only to the extent that it is done offhand, the other assessment also rate other aspects of student's formation.
To begin with, formal examination is thought to be more beneficial in performance evaluation probably because it subjects the students to showcase their knowledge of the course without the aid of any extraneous material or textbooks. Though this can spur the desire to work hard, there is the probability that some students would forget everything they are taught after passing the examination. However, this can be remedied if the course instructor makes learning more practical for them than theoritical. To illustrate, 75 percent of the lecturers in Cambridge University said they understand students ability better through their response to questions asked in their examination. Flowing from the above, it is not out of place to suggest that formal examination has more benefits in assessing how students perform.
On the flipside, besides the end of term examination, other means of assessment such as tests and research also aid the students to develop some problem solving and workplace skills. The term papers and research works done during the course of the term as continuous assessment provides avenue for an all round formation, which is the main reason for education as the teacher is able to gauge the efficiency of the students understandingas the term is progressing. For example, a survey carried out among students of tertiary institution in Abuja in 2020 disclosed that over half of the students in tertiary institutions gain hands-on experience and skill from field trips and research carried out than by writing examination.
To conclude, in as much as final examination is an important mode of evaluation of students' academic performance, other methods are also valuable and beneficial, thus it is not the only beneficial test of students intellectual ability.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'is the best'.
Suggestion: is the best
...tellectual proficiency. While this view is best only to the extent that it is done offh...
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Message: Use simply 'during'.
Suggestion: during
...The term papers and research works done during the course of the term as continuous assessment provi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, however, if, so, thus, while, for example, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 8.3376753507 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1775.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 332.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34638554217 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98542906279 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542168674699 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 549.9 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 20.2975951904 148% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.0460582656 49.4020404114 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.363636364 106.682146367 151% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1818181818 20.7667163134 145% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.27272727273 7.06120827912 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226973821414 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.091576915451 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043963231196 0.0667982634062 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137412304426 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0503424082104 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.9 13.0946893788 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.57 50.2224549098 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.3001002004 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.1190380762 138% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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