There seems to be an increasing trend towards assessing students through exams rather than through continual assessment. What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams as a form of assessment?
Assessment of knowledge gained by students, who are involved in a particular academic activity is essential yet complicated. `some people believe that evaluating the students by taking examinations at the end of course is much more beneficial than assessing them on their active participation and assignment given during course. In this essay, I would be discussing about advantages and disadvantage of both evaluation systems.
On the one hand, examinations at the end of an academic activity tend to be better evaluation method to assess the individual academic knowledge of students. This is because, examinations are conducted in front of an invigilator, hence there are less chances of cheating by copying answers among students. Besides that, since this form of evaluation is conducted by same set of questions within an assigned time period, for example 2 hours or 3 hours, it provides an equal evaluation standard, both in terms of level of difficulty and time for all the students enrolled in a particular course in a given period of time. However due to this standardization in terms of similar questions and time constrain, this type of evaluation method is criticized for its incomplete coverage of the course.
On the other hand, evaluating students by continuous assessment methods like assignments, group discussions and short presentations during the course, also have some characteristic advantages. This type of evaluation appears to be fairer for students, who are regularly active during the course. Also, it provides a more comprehensive coverage of learning objectives in a target academic program. Although, continuous assessments have more chances of plagiarism and cheating by poorly motivated students.
In conclusion, while continuous assessment methods provide more elaborate coverage of course objectives, examination at the end of course seems to be a superior method of evaluation of intellectual abilities of a student.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, hence, however, if, so, while, for example, in conclusion, of course, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1668.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 300.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25112630056 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526666666667 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => 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: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 61.6966143498 49.4020404114 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.0 106.682146367 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153437209694 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643011268336 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406847497234 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11106880438 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0236316463583 0.056905535591 42% => 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: 17.3 13.0946893788 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 50.2224549098 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.3001002004 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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