Do you think formal written assessments in today's world to assess students’ performance is effective or not? Discuss your viewpoint on this and support your answer with examples.
Students are commonly assessed through written essay or report. This essay will discuss how academic writing can effectively indicate students’ learning outcomes and demonstrate their understanding on the study topic.
Coursework assessment in higher level education involves formal writing which is done either individually or in group. Formal writing involves a comprehensive writing skill, a strong analytical and problem solving skill as well as collaborate skill. Assessing students through their writing helps evaluate a set of skills rather than just knowledge about the study topic. As a result, evaluation on students’ formal writing is an operative way to judge students’ skills.
Academic writing not just indicates the performance of students and their skills but also reflects their true understanding on the topic. Students acquire to gather information, analyse it and come up with a logical answer to the given question or topic. The level of accuracy and comprehension of the answer designates how well students understand the topic. To exemplify, at university level, it is common that no specific answer or solution exists to any given problem. It is important that report or essay presents the proposed solution to convince the marker who has an extensive knowledge on the topic. The writing must contain highly accurate information which is presented in a well – developed structure and supports the final solution. Hence, report writing assessment is a plausible method to evaluate students’ understanding.
To conclude, even though the method of assessing students through formal writing has been used for a long time, it is still an effective method to evaluate students’ learning outcomes. The assessment reflects both the learning outcomes and understanding of students.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, still, well, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 6.10837438424 49% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 8.36945812808 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 20.9802955665 52% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 31.9359605911 91% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 5.75862068966 208% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1555.0 1207.87684729 129% => OK
No of words: 274.0 242.827586207 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.67518248175 5.00649968141 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1184994192 2.71678728327 115% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 139.433497537 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536496350365 0.580463131201 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 479.7 379.143842365 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 4.0 1.56157635468 256% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.5024630542 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.4070286383 50.4703680194 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 103.666666667 104.977214359 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2666666667 20.9669160288 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13333333333 7.25397266985 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 2.91625615764 206% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23583700354 0.242375264174 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0914620423636 0.0925447433944 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627186171091 0.071462118173 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169367874093 0.151781067708 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307374588075 0.0609392437508 50% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 12.6369458128 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 53.1260098522 68% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.66 11.5310837438 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.32886699507 108% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 55.0591133005 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.94827586207 106% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.3980295567 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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