Formal exams are used to assess student at the end of each semester in many countries. Why are these exams used by school and universities? What are other types of assessments are possible?
Generally speaking, most of educational institutions organize formal evaluation to measure their student progress. This essay will describe it is main reason as well as suggest other alternative assessment methods.
To start with, it is generally accepted that the formal examination, which is conducted by schools and universities, has no reason but to measure the progress of the student. This is due to the fact that such assessment will enable the school to determine whether their apprentices are able to meet the instructional objectives or they need more lessons before taking a step further to the higher level of education. For instance, many schools organize written examination to acquire grades which represent student achievement.
Although many educational firms apply paper based evaluation in the end of every semester, I believe there are other alternative methods that worth considered to apply for student evaluation. Such methods include direct observation assessment and face to face interviews. Direct observation is considered one of effective method for assessing the progress since it will enable the teacher to engage with the learners and acquire direct understanding about them. On the other hand, interview assessment, although it requires a bit longer time than paper exam, it is very useful if the institution would like to measure the level of confidence of learners understanding on particular subject.
Hence, formal assessment is undoubtedly necessary to apply in every educational institution. However, it is suggested that schools and universities should organise more than one evaluation method to gain relevant understanding about their learner development.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'considered applying'.
Suggestion: considered applying
...re other alternative methods that worth considered to apply for student evaluation. Such methods in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, so, well, for instance, such as, as well as, to start with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => 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: 1448.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 255.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.67843137255 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08730829536 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 176.041082164 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572549019608 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.1059566541 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.636363636 106.682146367 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1818181818 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.27272727273 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.209216376028 0.244688304435 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0752972056513 0.084324248473 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0219897928996 0.0667982634062 33% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119721876858 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0163799765678 0.056905535591 29% => 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: 16.9 13.0946893788 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 50.2224549098 62% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.96 12.4159519038 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 9.78957915832 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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