What are the advantages and disadvantages of making children do exams?
Nowadays, paper exams are used widely for learning assessment purpose in school system varying from countries to countries. In recent years, they have been seen as an easy and effective tool to judge students' performance and schools and universities are starting to make their student do exams at earlier age. But what are the benefits of this situation, and what are the drawbacks? In this essay, I will look at both sides and try to draw some conclusions.
Let's begin by looking at the advantage of sitting an exam. One of the major plus point is tracking learner's process can be devastating without regular tests. For instance, it seems easier for those who involve in lots of class activities because teacher can do a check up regularly. But for those who do not, how can we make sure that they can catch up with their peers and no one is left behind? Moreover, learners who are actively involved can not be seen as qualified without a proper writing test paper being marked to see if they really understand what are taught in class.
Another benefit of making children do exams is to make them be familiar with the notion of sitting an exams for hours. As this will happen more often as they are getting older, practicing for exams ahead will help young learners to feel well-prepared without being over stressful. Further more, preparing for an exam means you will have to do a lot of reading for references. Generally, it is good for their future learning prospects.
Turning to the other side of the argument, it can be argued that doing exams tend to be redundant at early age. In other words, young children should be tested on their physical abilities and how they demonstrate their soft skills with their mates. The testing takes time and can be especially challenging if there is also a language barrier to deal with.
Another issue is that paper exams tend not to cover entirely the knowledge in that school semester. They can only cover a part of it, so it is unreasonable to judge a student's performance in a whole year based on one test. There are also other outside elements that need to be taken into account since they affect directly to the test result, such as: illness, accidents or bereavement, etc.
All things considered, deciding on whether children should do more or less tests and exams is never easy. Teachers and parents will need to weight up the pros to the cons that exams bring. Personally, tests can be an effective way to aid teacher in school if they are used in an effective way.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, moreover, really, so, well, for instance, such as, in other words, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 13.1623246493 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 7.85571142285 229% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2089.0 1615.20841683 129% => OK
No of words: 445.0 315.596192385 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.69438202247 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48921826073 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 176.041082164 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537078651685 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1518547528 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.9545454545 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2272727273 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.54545454545 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231074123321 0.244688304435 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0731576278996 0.084324248473 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0810011138982 0.0667982634062 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12081111087 0.151304729494 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0577328990639 0.056905535591 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 50.2224549098 136% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.92 12.4159519038 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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