Formal examinations are the only effective way to assess a student’s performance. Continual assessment such as coursework and projects is not a satisfactory way to do this. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
The concept of examination and assessments have evolved over the last few centuries, especially after the inception of written documentation and advent of information technology reducing the necessity for the dependence on memorized information. Therefore, it is my opinion that rather than relying on timed examinations which rely on written confabulations, assessing a student's ability with presentations, project work and coursework is much more affective in this modern era.
Firstly, internet has changed the whole concept of knowledge based education systems since now almost everything can be found online. As a result, people do not have to rely on their memory but it has become much more important to analyze information. Furthermore, the world is changing rapidly so any knowledge stored in memory will become obsolete within a few years and hence ingraining student's minds with loads of information is an ineffective way to develop the next generation.
Secondly, in the real world, analytical skills are more important and hence with the correct course design through assignments based on case studies and debates, it is possible to train and build up students capable of tackling real-world problems. For example, many of today's most successful people such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were college dropouts, who put their skills and effort to solving practical problems, thus reinforcing the fact that doing projects might lead to exponential mental and cognitive development which many traditional exams fail to do.
Finally, most computers today are able to think and make decisions with millions of terabytes of information within a few seconds, which quite frankly, is rather impossible for human beings today. In addition to this, the development of artificial intelligence has resulted many repetitive or procedural tasks to be automated meaning that humans are necessary for unpredictable or uncertain issues in the job market. Thus, providing challenging courseworks develops the pupil's abilities to handle and decide on issues which automated systems cannot do. Why should humans try to learn things that computers can do a million times faster?
In conclusion, while there are some advantages to timed exams but owing to the demand of this modern age and the proliferation of technological advancements, it is a superior strategy to design courses with regular assessments that will enhance a person's intellectual capability to do things that artificially intelligent systems will not be able to do. Thus, I disagree with the topic and opine that a change in the tradition assessment methods is not only an option but necessary for the students, who will become the innovators of tomorrow.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, frankly, furthermore, hence, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 10.4138276553 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2303.0 1615.20841683 143% => OK
No of words: 424.0 315.596192385 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43160377358 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53775939005 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02084895938 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 176.041082164 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587264150943 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 731.7 506.74238477 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 32.0 20.2975951904 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.7226033782 49.4020404114 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 177.153846154 106.682146367 166% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.6153846154 20.7667163134 157% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.0769230769 7.06120827912 185% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217535042879 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0696853582606 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0474931528643 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114614763444 0.151304729494 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459808890316 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.5 13.0946893788 157% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 50.2224549098 61% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 11.3001002004 150% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.81 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.29 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 78.4519038076 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.1190380762 146% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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