Although cooperation is currently the most popular paradigm in classrooms, competition has a number of advantages. Research on classrooms in which competition is encouraged has demonstrated that competition can increase motivation and productivity while students are having fun.
Competition has long been used in classrooms to motivate students, encouraging them to do their best work. Like athletes who improve when they train with others who are equal or superior performers, students tend to improve in a competitive learning setting. Considerable evidence suggests that motivation is especially enhanced among high achieving students in a competitive classroom.
One of the main advantages of competition is that it creates an environment in which students push each other to excel and thereby increase productivity. For example, in classrooms where students compete to read the most books, the total number of books that each student reads increases as compared with classrooms without similar competitive goals.
Perhaps because competition has long been associated with sports and games, it is fun for students. Teachers often use team-based competitions to make academic material more interesting and entertaining. Some common examples are spelling bees, science project competitions, and group quizzes in which teams answer questions and receive points for correct answers. Competition is useful when an otherwise uninteresting lesson is presented as a game. Most would agree that playing is more enjoyable than memorizing by rote for the big test. In fact, students who participate in the Science Olympiad, a national competitive event, report that the main reason for joining the team is to have fun
The reading passage lists many advantages for competition in the classroom. However, the speaker in the lecture casts doubt on those claims made in the article.
First of all, the author points out that competition in a classroom develops motivation among the students., insomuch as they would do their best to win. For instance, athletes improve when they compete against someone as equal as them or better. However, the professor contradicts this specific argument. He states that instead of learning, it would cause an increase of anxiety, stress and provoke cheating in order to win the internal competition.
Moreover, the article discusses the idea that competition would increase productivity. This argument can be illustrated with a competition to see which student read more books than the rest of the class. In this way, it can be surging the amount of read books and productivity. Nevertheless, the professors disagree with this claim. He explains that new evidence confirmed that what causes the increase of productivity is cooperation, not competition. Due to the overall class would work for a common goal, which benefits the whole classroom.
Finally, the reading passage describes that to compete against everyone is fun. Several schools organize certain competitions during the school year, such as spelling be, science fair and quizzes in order to let the classmates learn while they are having fun, but the professor can’t be more in disagreement, due to the fact that it’s only fun for the winners, not to the losers. Instead, he proposes that a healthy competition is the one they do with themselves. For example, the winners would be the children that read more books that last month.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, so, while, for example, for instance, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1445.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 277.0 270.72406181 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21660649819 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81330067517 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58844765343 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 419.366225166 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.4679258369 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.3125 110.228320801 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3125 21.698381199 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.3125 7.06452816374 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 4.33554083885 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203158530427 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0656793962482 0.0996497079465 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0709511015927 0.0662205650399 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129819541574 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0382449261646 0.0443174109184 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 53.8541721854 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.7 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 63.6247240618 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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