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.
It’s a traditional approach to assess students’ performance by formal written assessments. I believe that student’s assessment should not be solely made on written assessment where practical assessment is equally significant in assessment. This essay will discuss both sides in detail and thus lead to a plausible conclusion.
To commence with, written assessment is a traditional and classical approach to evaluate students’ performance. As earlier, students didn’t have the internet to find out all the information related to the given topic at one place which means they had to do written assessment on basis of their own research and understanding of the topic. And students need to use their writing skills and handwriting and those were the main criteria to assess the students’ performance. For instance, PhD students still need to work on their written thesis and students evaluated and get degrees. Therefore, formal written assessment is still an effective method to assess student in some courses.
On the flip side, today, many schools and universities are focusing on more practical knowledge with more experimental assessment, so formal written assessment has become the least chosen approach to evaluate students’ performance. In technological era, inventions are coming and going on blink of eyes so schools are preparing students to accustom with this era and assessing them on experiments, project based assessment. For example, a study shows those students that do well in practical assessment rather than written assessment, they excel in academic performance. Thus, practical assessments are more effective method to assess students today than written assessment.
In conclusion, although written assessment still used in some courses, practical assessment is way more effective approach to assess students’ performance. In my opinion, a balanced approach of both written and practical assessment is a more significant way to assess students’ performance.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, so, still, therefore, thus, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 6.10837438424 65% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 8.36945812808 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 5.94088669951 67% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 20.9802955665 67% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 31.9359605911 132% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 5.75862068966 365% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1735.0 1207.87684729 144% => OK
No of words: 298.0 242.827586207 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.82214765101 5.00649968141 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.33072751471 2.71678728327 123% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 139.433497537 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513422818792 0.580463131201 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 521.1 379.143842365 137% => 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: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.65517241379 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 12.6551724138 111% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.0638975019 50.4703680194 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.928571429 104.977214359 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2857142857 20.9669160288 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64285714286 7.25397266985 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 2.75862068966 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 2.91625615764 274% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.406801793999 0.242375264174 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.197549894523 0.0925447433944 213% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0866128818563 0.071462118173 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.304422200653 0.151781067708 201% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0398850243021 0.0609392437508 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 12.6369458128 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.1260098522 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.48 11.5310837438 143% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32886699507 101% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 55.0591133005 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.5123152709 162% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 67.5 Out of 90
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