In modern world there is a movement away from written exams to more practical assessment. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this trend.
Modern educational systems are moving away from written exams to implementing new methods such as practical exams. Although, this is a stepping stone in revolutionizing the training system to be more efficient, there are both positive and negative sides to it which I will discuss below in brief.
One of the advantages of practical tests is that pupils’ knowledge will be evaluated based on their deep understanding of the concept rather than their memorization abilities. In the conventional method of assessment, students who had strong memorizing skills would typically be more successful than their classmates. However, the new method ensures that pupils who understand the subject profoundly can outperform the exam using their practical knowledge. Secondly, substituting practical exams with the written tests is an effective way of gaining hands-on skills for teenagers. Therefore, they will achieve more success in their future’s career.
On the other hand, practical assessments can pose more stress due to their inherent erroneous nature. For example, a student has a very limited time to create a formula for his chemistry test. Given the situation, if a fault happens in the laboratory measuring equipment or if he drops the jar inadvertently, he will fail the test regardless of how knowledgeable he has been in chemistry. In addition, hands-on tests are more time consuming, especially for certain biological subjects such as microbiology, and they require enough equipment for all students to be assessed at the same time. One way to tackle the abovementioned shortages is by allocating more budget to the educational systems to re-new all laboratories with new and accurate equipment and to provide enough supplies for every student.
In conclusion, the modern world requires modern methods of teaching and examining young people to equip them better for their future career. Although novel methods of evaluation have still drawbacks that need to be addressed, they offer advantages to the obsolete methods. However, more resources and planning should be allocated to improve the newly developed methods.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, for example, in addition, in brief, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1800.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 329.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47112462006 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0224689262 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601823708207 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 506.74238477 111% => 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: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.3333858267 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.0 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9333333333 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.66666666667 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206461123008 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0705284551466 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063159544059 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134926194727 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0711009490011 0.056905535591 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.96 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 78.4519038076 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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