Knowing the teaching quality of teachers provides a more helpful and insightful tool for school to improve their education and reputation. Thus, when it comes to evaluate the teachers’ teaching quality, how to get a more objective and efficiency evaluation result is a big issue for school. While some people suggest that use the evaluation results from other teachers may be useful, I insist that the evaluation of teachers should be done by their students because of objectiveness and benefits for teaching quality.
To begin with, although some people argues that the peer evaluation from other teachers may be more objective because they know the content of teaching better than students, I doubt that since there is competition between different teachers, especially when school plan to reward some teachers according to their evaluation result. Thus, the evaluation from other teachers may not be objective or even be more suspicious when teachers are in the same competition. By contrast, because students have nothing to do with the rewards of teaching, their feedback of teachers can provide objective comments of teachers, which would be truly helpful in teachers’ performance evaluation.
Furthermore, by collecting feedback of teachers from students could improve the teaching quality. To be more specific, the students’ evaluation of one teacher basically based on his/her understanding of the content in the class. If we can get more information about the students’ opinion about the class content and the teacher’s teaching style, we could probably know how to adjust and improve the teaching quality. For example, there was an annual evaluation of each teacher in my high school, students were required to evaluate the teachers’ performance based on their likeness and understanding level of the teacher’s teaching. By indicating that I cannot follow the math teacher as her teaching pace was so fast to most of my classmates, the math teacher slowed down her teaching pace and paused at some difficult formulas to discuss with us, which gave us a better understanding and higher score of math.
While I cannot deny that other teachers’ evaluation plays a role in teaching quality since they know more teaching methods than students, we need to realise that students are the main and direct objects in teaching process, thus, knowing students’ comments on the teaching process gives us some direct and important information about teaching quality.
To sum up, I suggest that students should perform the evaluation of their teachers, which not only may provide more objective evaluation, but also could improve the teachers’ teaching quality. However, the evaluation from other teachers may not gain those benefits for both schools and students.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus, while, as to, for example, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 8.0752688172 260% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2350.0 1977.66487455 119% => OK
No of words: 437.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37757437071 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83651528374 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 212.727598566 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.439359267735 0.524837075471 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 699.3 618.680645161 113% => 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: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6003584229 68% => 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: 31.0 20.1344086022 154% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 77.5652786302 48.9658058833 158% => OK
Chars per sentence: 167.857142857 100.406767564 167% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.2142857143 20.6045352989 151% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35714285714 5.45110844103 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.402587952206 0.236089414692 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.18240953439 0.076458572812 239% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0555577870522 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264326285853 0.150856017488 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054190171784 0.0645574589148 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.5 11.7677419355 166% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 58.1214874552 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 10.1575268817 152% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.52 10.9000537634 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.0537634409 143% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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