do you think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?
These days there is a debate among members of society about the performance of formal written examinations. I believe that although these types of assessments possess a key point in our education system, there are other types of examinations which would improve the educational system.
To begin with, it is an indispensable fact that these types of assessments are not able to measure all kinds of talents in students. This is attributed to the fact that a myriad of other abilities exist which cannot be assesses by a single exam at the end of the semester such as team work or leadership. In order to improve and assess these skills, didactic as well as recreational activities should be conducted to assess these skills of students during the semester, and provide the society with more skillful graduated students.
In addition, the assessment of students during the semester would decrease the amount of stress on students during an exam. They would be more relaxed if knowing that this single exam would not determine their destination, and also it would be more fair to them since in the old system if a pupil gets sick at the time of the exam, there will not be any other chances for him to get the required score.
To recapitulate, I strongly am of the opinion that the old methods of formal assessments with written examinations would not be a perfect way of assessment.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, well, in addition, such as, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 6.10837438424 147% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 8.36945812808 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 20.9802955665 100% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 31.9359605911 128% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.75862068966 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1155.0 1207.87684729 96% => OK
No of words: 238.0 242.827586207 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85294117647 5.00649968141 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92775363542 3.92707691288 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77209365157 2.71678728327 102% => OK
Unique words: 131.0 139.433497537 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550420168067 0.580463131201 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 365.4 379.143842365 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.57093596059 95% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.6157635468 130% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.325123152709 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 12.6551724138 63% => 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: 29.0 20.5024630542 141% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.3454250616 50.4703680194 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.375 104.977214359 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.75 20.9669160288 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.25397266985 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.147559060127 0.242375264174 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0755405432246 0.0925447433944 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0597573455208 0.071462118173 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112291525732 0.151781067708 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0691596571802 0.0609392437508 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 12.6369458128 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 53.1260098522 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.9458128079 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 11.5310837438 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.32886699507 104% => OK
difficult_words: 54.0 55.0591133005 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.94827586207 146% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.3980295567 131% => 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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