Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts
It is known that teaching and learning are pivotal factors of knowledge building. Concepts are more general and need to be understood, while facts are specific and are usually memorized. I agree with the given statement that it is critical for students to understand ideas and concepts than just learn facts.
Learning facts is usually a quick process accomplished by memorization. For this reason, it lasts very short because we easily forget something we memorize quickly. For example, when we memorize a subject the day before a test, we would easily forget the content maybe unfortunately before the test and what is worst we simply do not learn about the subject.
However, understanding concepts is a long process made by gathering information and making connections. It is necessary to make mental maps and a lot of reasoning to understand an idea. Since this process is long and arduous, it will last long in our minds, maybe for our entire life. For example, when we study for a test and take it seriously, we collect information from a wide variety of sources and put it all together then write it down in our own words, making a lot of reasoning and understanding the subject. This is how we learn for real, therefore, I believe that an effective learning process requires an understanding of concepts.
Furthermore, it is necessary a lot of critical thinking to develop broad conceptual ideas. Students need to develop their skills and knowledge in certain fields to be qualified for future challenges. For instance, when a test question is a factual question maybe everybody, including those who memorized the content the day before, will answer the question. But conceptual questions are only solved by those who can think critically. Consequently, those students who can think critically will develop their skills better and will be prepared for the job market in the future.
To sum up, I believe that it is crucial for students to understand concepts than just learning facts because they will really learn about the subject and consequently will develop their skills and be prepared for job opportunities.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, while, for example, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 52.1666666667 63% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 352.0 407.700716846 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05113636364 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85930408224 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 212.727598566 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480113636364 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 545.4 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7768723829 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.588235294 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7058823529 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.17647058824 5.45110844103 132% => 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: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316772887365 0.236089414692 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106805394604 0.076458572812 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110196436788 0.0737576698707 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204081827657 0.150856017488 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113279889409 0.0645574589148 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 86.8835125448 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, while, for example, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 52.1666666667 63% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 1977.66487455 90% => OK
No of words: 352.0 407.700716846 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05113636364 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85930408224 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 212.727598566 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480113636364 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 545.4 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7768723829 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.588235294 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7058823529 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.17647058824 5.45110844103 132% => 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: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316772887365 0.236089414692 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106805394604 0.076458572812 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110196436788 0.0737576698707 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204081827657 0.150856017488 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113279889409 0.0645574589148 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 11.7677419355 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 58.1214874552 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 86.8835125448 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.