The current trend in education is to move away from traditional exams and instead have continuous assessment over the school year.
What do you think of this trend?
In recent years the approach of assessing students through continual assessment has risen in popularity over the alternate of examinations. In my opinion, while this model has the advantage of testing students knowledge in full but may breed the chances of plagiarism.
Firstly looking at the positives of exams, one of the crucial advantages of exams is it leaves a little room for cheating. This is because exams are undertaken in the presence of invigilator whose job is to detect any candidate breaking the rule. In contrast, continual assessment increases the risk of plagiarism since the assignments are generally completed with the help of the internet. Beside reducing, cheating exams tend to appear once or twice in a year. Thus provide enough time for students to prepare and revise.
Nevertheless, exams do bring some problems for students, the obvious one is that when the student who is extremely creative and intelligent put under pressure may result in their mind go blank. Considering exams as a situation of intense pressure, the brightest of the students can perform poorly especially. Another disadvantage of exams is that they are not comprehensive enough to test the knowledge in full. To illustrate, a small window of time limits the information on which students will be tested on.
To conclude, Although continual provide relax environment for students and test the knowledge in details, arguably they exams are not time-efficient and not strict in cutting down cheating as exams.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, look, may, nevertheless, so, thus, while, in contrast, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 9.0 24.0651302605 37% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1272.0 1615.20841683 79% => OK
No of words: 242.0 315.596192385 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25619834711 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94415379849 4.20363070211 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95676100251 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.615702479339 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 397.8 506.74238477 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.8556422884 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1666666667 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.41666666667 7.06120827912 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.130497621136 0.244688304435 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485919813783 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0408304089574 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0831032642237 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0338230532023 0.056905535591 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.72 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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