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.
Student's performance assessed by the formal written examinations is the most vital way among all other assessments. While in the past there was the only written examination to judge the student's knowledge but in contemporary times there are numerous ways. This essay will discuss why written assessment is an effective method of analysing students performance. The following paragraphs will explain both, the advantages and demerits of the stance taken with the pertinent aspects and examples.
There are myriad of reasons which proponents cite for the popularity of written examination. One of the most preponderant reasons is that formal exams not only help to analyse the student's writing skills, but also analytical and presentation skills that further benefitted them in their career growth. To elaborate, according to a recent study by Stanford University, it is evident that 70% of students have strong analytical and decision-making skills who go through the written assessment. Therefore, it is apparent that the most operative way for performance assessment is the written examination.
On contrary, there is another stratum of society who believes that written assessment is only putting pressure on students. Students in the rush of getting higher marks come under pressure that can even lead to detrimental health issues. To exemplify, in a recent study by Times of India, every year 10 out of 100 commits suicide because of scoring less. Hence, not only it put pressure on students but also affecting their mental conditions.
In conclusion, there are many approaches to address students performance but the most common one is the formal written assessment. In my opinion, the merits overweigh the disadvantages of written assessment. Lastly, parents and the social pressure is affecting them but the situation can be improved with the help of regular counselling of parents and students.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 187, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...e only written examination to judge the students knowledge but in contemporary times the...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, lastly, so, therefore, while, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 8.36945812808 131% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 31.9359605911 125% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.75862068966 260% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1615.0 1207.87684729 134% => OK
No of words: 297.0 242.827586207 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.43771043771 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97753533148 2.71678728327 110% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 139.433497537 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538720538721 0.580463131201 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 501.3 379.143842365 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 3.0 1.56157635468 192% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 3.65517241379 192% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 12.6551724138 119% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.6653845917 50.4703680194 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.666666667 104.977214359 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 20.9669160288 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.25397266985 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211097233423 0.242375264174 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0736976383899 0.0925447433944 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0633988966805 0.071462118173 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127520374928 0.151781067708 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0683408129093 0.0609392437508 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 12.6369458128 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 11.5310837438 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.32886699507 107% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 55.0591133005 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.94827586207 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
---------------------
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.