Many students are asked to evaluate their professors at the end of the semester. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?
Throughout history, education has a pivotal role in all societies. Due to its importance, scholars have tried to elevate the effectiveness of evaluation of professor by students. A controversial question which is often raised regarding this idea among students, professors and faculty members is whether evaluating professors by students at the end of semesters proper or there are needed changes. I personally contend there are lots of disadvantages of the time of this process, but there are still valuable advantages for the whole process. To substantiate my point of view, the following paragraphs represent a cursory glance at the most outstanding advantages and disadvantages.
The first noteworthy point regarding the issue is that the main purpose of evaluation, which is to illustrate the positive and negative points of the class and the professor, is highly needed in order to improve the method. For instance, the professor will be conscious of the number of students who are not enjoying the time of the class, the method of the assignments and so on. This information may help him to improve the current methods in a way that the number of such students will decrease in the next semesters.
But probably the more important, and the more concrete advantage is that students will believe into the fact that they are important in this process and their opinion may change the routines. In this way, they will be more self-confident, and also the professor will bear in mind that he should satisfy his students in the whole semester. Besides the aforementioned advantages, there are some disadvantages mostly because of the inappropriate time of evaluation and the usual method of that.
The first disadvantage that can be provided is that the time of the evaluation is not proper for the students in that class. While evaluation is usually at the end of the semesters, the students of that class would not see the results of their own opinions, and this may be disappointing for them. If I was the organizer, I would definitely set several evaluation tasks in each semester. In this way, the process of improvement would be found out easier and also the students would have better feeling.
The second disadvantage that can be mentioned is that mostly the questions for this process are typical and old-fashioned. As a result, they would not provide lots of information for the expected improvement. Furthermore, the students may be bored in the process of answering such question. As a personal example, in our university we have to evaluate our professors at the end of the semester in our portal university site. There are bunch of questions regarding to the professor and the course, but they are the same for both theoretical and experimental classes. When it is the time to evaluate, I am really bored of answering this constant questions.
The issue of evaluating professors at the end of semesters by students is then, perhaps ironically, a thoroughly modern one in the spectrum of global development problem. Above all, I concur with the opinion that the main process of the evaluation is appropriate but there are some disadvantages which should be paid attention to. Besides the aforementioned advantages and disadvantages there may be other potential factors that could be evaluated. This is an area where all universities have much to learn and much to offer.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'besides', 'but', 'first', 'furthermore', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'regarding', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'while', 'for instance', 'as a result']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.224958949097 0.229887763892 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.137931034483 0.158761421928 87% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0788177339901 0.0866891130778 91% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0426929392447 0.046263068375 92% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0361247947455 0.0685040099705 53% => OK
Prepositions: 0.136288998358 0.118717715034 115% => OK
Participles: 0.0344827586207 0.0351676179071 98% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.0413932341 2.67179642975 114% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0197044334975 0.0309702414327 64% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.146141215107 0.0887237588012 165% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0328407224959 0.0209618222197 157% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0147783251232 0.0139019557991 106% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3391.0 2387.08602151 142% => OK
No of words: 559.0 408.028673835 137% => OK
Chars per words: 6.06618962433 5.86048508987 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86242540663 4.48200974243 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.34168157424 0.338922669872 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.291592128801 0.251872472559 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.230769230769 0.174417080927 132% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.169946332737 0.112833075102 151% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0413932341 2.67179642975 114% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 212.727598566 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.443649373882 0.524397521467 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 52.3415869225 59.2087087015 88% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6684587814 121% => OK
Sentence length: 22.36 20.5533526081 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4830828866 48.84282405 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.64 120.699889404 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.36 20.5533526081 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.64 0.644075263715 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.5376344086 132% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.54480286738 36% => OK
Readability: 51.5192128801 45.7405998639 113% => OK
Elegance: 1.82575757576 1.45489161554 125% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.631170202555 0.300154397459 210% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.140302631715 0.103427244359 136% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0964512618464 0.0752933317313 128% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.585848956376 0.497263757937 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.16287244656 0.151897553556 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.276139625581 0.114077575197 242% => Sentence topic similarity is too high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.116984294576 0.0781384742642 150% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.564372153938 0.336927656856 168% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0484683327575 0.067059652881 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.478530569047 0.210909579961 227% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450868582244 0.0618886996521 73% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8870967742 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.86379928315 285% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.91756272401 81% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 8.42114695341 95% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 2.4623655914 325% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.75985663082 109% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.6433691756 139% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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