Standardized testing
The article states that standardized test ensure that students receive the best education possible and supports this system by providing 3 reasons. The speaker says that these tests are no tool to help improve education of the students and refutes with each of the article’s reasons.
Firstly, the article states that these tests set a strong standard because they are given statewide and nationwide. The speaker refutes this point by explaining that forcing these tests pushes teachers to teach the same material and restricts their freedom in educating their students, she continues to argue that these tests tell teachers what to teach and takes the power away from them to teach each of their students accordingly.
Secondly the article avers that with these exams, schools become more accountable for the success of their students. The speaker however disagrees with this statement by telling us that this results in the punishment of the students who act poorly in the tests, and also that these tests are to determine the funding for schools and the better the students perform the more funding the school receives and thus, for those schools which are in rough neighborhoods and don’t perform as well, this has a negative effect on their funding.
Finally, the article asserts that the results of these exams can provide help to those students who need it most. The lecturer opposes to this notion by saying that if the students don’t pass the exams there is no help for them, and that these tests are given to more than 100 different schools and more than 1000 different students to determine their reaction, and what if some students react poorly under pressure or what if they are ill?
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 22.412803532 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1445.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 285.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0701754386 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41849343508 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487719298246 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 414.9 419.366225166 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 35.0 21.2450331126 165% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 115.714019786 49.2860985944 235% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 180.625 110.228320801 164% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.625 21.698381199 164% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.125 7.06452816374 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191715023733 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110434040039 0.0996497079465 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105074265321 0.0662205650399 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142063351174 0.162205337803 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.098082963479 0.0443174109184 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.3 13.3589403974 152% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.41 53.8541721854 82% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.0289183223 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.72 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 63.6247240618 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 10.498013245 152% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.2008830022 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.