Many people think that students study course materials more effectively by taking exams, while others think that students learn more effectively through doing other activities such as writing paper or completing projects. Which do you think is more effective for students to learn?
Nowadays, the schools that foster the students to do projects instead of taking exams are becoming more and more common. This situation results a lot of parents who question the quality of their children’s education. One of inevitable questions regarding quality of education is whether students learn effectively by taking exams or through other activities such as writing papers or completing projects. I personally believe that these activities are much more efficient than the traditional exam strategy and I feel this way for three main reasons.
To begin with, projects allow students to experience real-life problems since most of these projects require a further knowledge than the regular high school exams do. While completing a project, students must encounter a variety of difficulties and this will enhance their problem solving skills. Therefore, these project and works can be used in the future when students are applying for a job or creating a strong resume.
Furthermore, being scored by projects instead of a classic four choices test, lowers the stress level as the majority of the students suffer from high anxiety problems. This encourages them to discuss with their friends and find solutions to a certain problem, which results a better environment to study without so much pressure. In addition, completing a project requires students to work slowly and methodically, so they can demonstrate their commitment their knowledge in a more efficient way. Consequently, this flexible routine and larger time accompanies with a decreased stress.
Finally, students are able to recall the information much easier that they have experienced on their own and get involved. However, this is certainly not the case when taking exams. Because it is widely known that students forget the essential information just after passing the exams since most of them only study one week before the exam week. As a result, taking exams is not as beneficial as people think it is.
To sum up, one can logically draw the conclusion that students learn more effectively by doing projects and writing papers rather than taking exams if they really want to succeed in their academic life.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, finally, furthermore, however, if, really, regarding, so, therefore, while, i feel, in addition, such as, as a result, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 52.1666666667 77% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1846.0 1977.66487455 93% => OK
No of words: 350.0 407.700716846 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27428571429 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73905093052 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.574285714286 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 560.7 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5215991787 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.375 100.406767564 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.875 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.8125 5.45110844103 180% => 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 : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => 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: 0.360696030439 0.236089414692 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111347109756 0.076458572812 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100258538721 0.0737576698707 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.199090972413 0.150856017488 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0899864037783 0.0645574589148 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 58.1214874552 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 86.8835125448 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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