As a new teaching method professors record a video lecture in advance for students to learn and class time is used to answer questions and have discussions Do you think this is an effective way and why | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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As a new teaching method, professors record a video (lecture) in advance for students to learn, and class time is used to answer questions, and have discussions. Do you think this is an effective way and why?

Teaching techniques have become so diverse that there are lots of psychological experiments trying to solve the mystery of
which method is more effective and to this day, there is no right answer to this debatable question, which is why professors all
have their own methods and they run a series of trial and error throughout their professional life in order to find the best one
for themselves. One of these methods that has gained a lot of attention is recording a video in which the course material is
explained and then the class time is used to have discussions about the topic. In my opinion, this is indeed a great method for
both students and professors.
First, let us view this from professors' point of view. Professors can record a video about a topic one time and use it for at least
two following semesters. They can actually use it until the material becomes outdated and needs an update which can vary
from topic to topic. This means they’ll save a huge amount of time by not repeating themselves over and over again. I think the
fact that they need to repeat the same material has quite a few downsides. One of them is that over time, professors become
exhausted and the quality of their lecture on the same topic decreases. I remember once I had to present a project of mine
to few different groups. By the time I was re-presenting it to the third group, I could feel I was neglecting a lot of points. I was
assured I did not present it as well as the first time the moment my audience started asking questions. It was obvious that I had
not conveyed the concept to them clearly. I think it’s only natural to expect this to happen to professors repeating the same topic
countless times. With this method, professors will record the lecture once with high quality and all students will have access
to the same quality. Also, because every semester there are new students in the class, discussions won’t ever become tedious for
the lecturer.
Second, I’m going to move to students' perspective on this method. Before explaining my reason, I think it’s worth
mentioning that for every person, there is a time throughout the day during which she is more productive than any other time.
With that in mind, when lectures are recorded, students can watch them in their most productive hours and this will boost up
their gain from each lecture. Also, each student has her own pace, not always consistent with the class' pace. When lectures
are recorded, students can pause them whenever they lag behind and resume them when they fully understand the part.
They can even watch a particular part a few times until they are comfortable moving forward. Another advantage of this method
is that when a student can’t attend the class for some reason, she won’t miss much. As for the class time that will be used for
questions and discussions, it will probably contain repeating some of the more challenging points of the lecture and
eliminating confusions on them, which will help students learn these points much better.
To conclude, I think recording the content of a lecture and using class time for discussions is a great method in which both
students and professors benefit. During COVID-19 pandemic, many professors have used this method for their online classes
and even though many other factors are included, I think the satisfying results of these online lectures using this method are
proof of the practicality and usefulness of this technique.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, if, second, so, then, third, well, as for, at least, i think, as well as, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.0286738351 181% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 43.0788530466 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 52.1666666667 134% => 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: 2926.0 1977.66487455 148% => OK
No of words: 602.0 407.700716846 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86046511628 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95335121839 4.48103885553 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54020985065 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455149501661 0.524837075471 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 881.1 618.680645161 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.4467662556 48.9658058833 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.538461538 100.406767564 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1538461538 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23076923077 5.45110844103 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 29.0 4.53405017921 640% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.412246798279 0.236089414692 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109266578691 0.076458572812 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0854537222602 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11028908319 0.150856017488 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0776076671045 0.0645574589148 120% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 11.7677419355 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 10.9000537634 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 27.5 10.002688172 275% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, if, second, so, then, third, well, as for, at least, i think, as well as, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments