Do you think formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school?
Assessment is an integral part to judge student's performance. Many people think that formal written examinations are a good way to assess knowledge at school. I oppose this notion as there are other efficient ways exist to evaluate the knowledge of the student and those can be combined with formal written examinations. This essay will discuss my viewpoint in detail.
To commence with, although formal written examinations help teachers to get to know students' grasp and understanding on particular subject and teachers can help students in better way, it can create a lot of pressure to students as sometimes under pressure students do not perform as per their potential and that can be misleading to evaluate one's performance.
for example, a recent study shows that in formal written examinations generally 30% students do not perform as per their capability due to high pressure. Therefore, formal written examinations should not be only assessment way to assess student's knowledge.
Practical examinations can be very useful to assess student's knowledge as it allows students to showcase their creative skills and presentation skills and even it reduces their stress level also. In practical assessment, students also learn to work in groups and respect each other's work. For instance, in India, many schools focus more on practical assessment because students perform much better in practical exams compared to formal written examinations due to less pressure.
In conclusion, although formal written examinations are good way to assess knowledge at school, it's not only way to judge one's knowledge and other assessment can be opted to evaluate student’s knowledge. In my opinion, a balanced assessment approach is required to judge student's knowledge at school.
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also, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.5418719212 95% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 6.10837438424 131% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 5.94088669951 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 20.9802955665 81% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 31.9359605911 119% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.75862068966 191% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1511.0 1207.87684729 125% => OK
No of words: 277.0 242.827586207 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45487364621 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96934864409 2.71678728327 109% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 139.433497537 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490974729242 0.580463131201 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 460.8 379.143842365 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.65517241379 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.1769770407 50.4703680194 163% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.916666667 104.977214359 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0833333333 20.9669160288 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 7.25397266985 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.12807881773 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.33497536946 94% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.419957956529 0.242375264174 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.203224839113 0.0925447433944 220% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.198473226411 0.071462118173 278% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.284328114616 0.151781067708 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.141572827188 0.0609392437508 232% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 12.6369458128 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.1260098522 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.9458128079 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 11.5310837438 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32886699507 100% => OK
difficult_words: 62.0 55.0591133005 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.94827586207 111% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 72.2222222222 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 65.0 Out of 90
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