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?
In recent years, the approach of using exams as form of assessment has risen in popularity over the alternative of continual assessment. This essay will highlight some of the benefits and drawbacks that have resulted from this switch.
Looking firstly with positives, a crucial advantage that examinations have as form of assessment is that they leave little room for cheating. This is because exams are taken under the control of invigilator whose job is to detect the candidates breaking any rule. In contrast, continual assessment creates a risk of plagiarism, where some students can complete their work with help of the internet. Besides reduce cheating, another advantage that exams are very time-efficient. As they come once or twice a year, this leave sufficient time to students to prepare and revise.
Nevertheless, exams as form of assessment do present some drawbacks. For instance, some students might lose concentration when they put under pressure. Considering this pressure, even some students are very intelligent and creative, but their minds under high pressure goes blank and perform poorly. Another disadvantage of this system is that there is small time window to test students’ knowledge in full. Unlike continual assessment, there is limit to the questions being ask in the exam, which leave less scope to analyze the performance of the students.
In conclusion, although exams as form of assessment are very beneficial in terms of cutting cheating and improving efficiency, it is important to consider that they may harm students’ concentration and are arguably not as thorough as continual assessment.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, firstly, look, may, nevertheless, so, as for, even so, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1391.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 256.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43359375 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03283775669 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.58203125 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 428.4 506.74238477 85% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1562930724 49.4020404114 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.0 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6923076923 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.92307692308 7.06120827912 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => 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: 0.270757162322 0.244688304435 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100172996485 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0735770200391 0.0667982634062 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175142696106 0.151304729494 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0137786742375 0.056905535591 24% => 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: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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