Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: grades encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
Grades are the basement of education: they enable to classify every student according to his level and to have an overview about the degree of comprehension of the class. Consequently, they encourage students to learn.
First, grades force students to learn because they know they will be evaluated at the end of the course. Even if a course does not interest the student, he will have somehow to learn a minimum about the course if he does not want to have a catastrophic grade. For example, when I was a child, I did not like history because I found it boring, but I had to learn dates and events in order to have an average grade. Without grades, students would only learn what interest them and they would not have an overview of the world.
On the other hand, some courses may interest students: having grades stimulates them because it is a way to evaluate level of comprehension, either for the student or the teacher. Putting a mark at the end of a course allows the student to know if he understood well the subject and its complexity, otherwise he will be convinced that he has understood it even if it is not the case. Consequently, if the student realizes that his grade is not as good as he thought, he will go back to his errors trying to understand what he missed during his learning and he will be encouraged to do better.
Finally, having grades raises a kind of competition spirit within the class that encourages students to give their best in order to have a mark as high as possible. Rating students enables them to challenge themselves and therefore, when they succeed to obtain a great mark, they feel valuated and more self-confident. Thus, they want more of that feeling and they continue to learn in order to reproduce this model.
To conclude, grades encourage students to learn because it forces the one who do not want to learn, it stimulates the one who are interested in some subjects and raises a competition spirit which lead students to learn more.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, finally, first, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1643.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 353.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.65439093484 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66030855574 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 212.727598566 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.467422096317 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 513.0 618.680645161 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => 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: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.2256775622 48.9658058833 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.384615385 100.406767564 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1538461538 20.6045352989 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.46153846154 5.45110844103 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170802163415 0.236089414692 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0807777422986 0.076458572812 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530222341255 0.0737576698707 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120261901153 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388668900115 0.0645574589148 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 11.7677419355 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 10.1575268817 124% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.99 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 86.8835125448 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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