Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades encourage students to learn. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
In the educational process, grades have determining roles. In fact, it can shape the student’s future and lead them to different paths. There are many debates about whether the grades help the students to learn or not. Generally speaking, as far as I am concerned I believe that grades do not necessarily show that the students have learned the subject matter. I feel this because of two reasons: grade can encourage rote learning and they do not represent the students’ full capacities.
First of all, I think a mere focus on grade, might lead to rote learning. In the process of education, for many teachers and the students, final grades are very important and show the students capabilities and the teachers’ success. Of course for some students and teachers deep learning is more important than the grades. However, for most students grades are the only important outcome of the school year. Hence, many of them just focus on the final exams and try to memorize the course books to be able to answer to final exams’ questions and after the exams are over they soon forget everything that they have memorized. For example, I recall at the high school, I had to memorize mathematical formulas. Although my grades at math were high, I did not have a deep understanding of them and during the summer break, I would forget everything. This I think was the case for many of my classmates who only focused on gaining high grades.
In addition to rote learning, I believe that grades might not represent the students’ capabilities. Some teachers might think that high grades might reflect the students’ learning. However, many teachers’ believe that grades do not necessarily show learning. There are many factors that affect the students' behavior during the exam’s night. Hence, the exams, particularly the final exams, can not fully show the students’ mastery over the subject. Therefore, there is no direct connection between grades and learning. By a way of example, I remember during my sophomore linguistics was my favorite subject. I was one of the prominent students. During the final exam, I got sick and my grades in linguistics suffered a lot. On the other hand, my classmate who acted very poorly during the semester, stayed awake all nights before the exams and gained high remarks. That is why based on the grades we can not judge how much someone have learned something.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 313, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
... There are many factors that affect the students behavior during the exam's night. ...
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Line 3, column 955, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
...rades we can not judge how much someone have learned something.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, so, therefore, for example, i feel, i think, in addition, in fact, of course, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2028.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 404.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0198019802 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48327461151 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84761064468 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 212.727598566 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477722772277 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 631.8 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.1072135195 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.5 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8333333333 20.6045352989 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.45110844103 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.53405017921 66% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147212889865 0.236089414692 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0537924651937 0.076458572812 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.045807721512 0.0737576698707 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127159474921 0.150856017488 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0611674081125 0.0645574589148 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 11.7677419355 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.44 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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