Recently, educational assessment methods have sparked an ongoing controversy, which inevitably leads to a moot question of whether or not students' knowledge should be evaluated by written examinations. Although many state that conventional pen and paper examinations are quite beneficial, this essay will discuss why these tests are unable to assess students' extent of knowledge.
To begin with, there are reasons why written tests fail to reliably evaluate students' knowledge and information. The most important one stems from the fact that test-wise candidates can often perform well on written exams without having good underlying knowledge or skills. For instance, international studies have shown repeatedly that students who score high in written examinations do not necessarily perform well in group works and projects. This is because students might memorize large amounts of information from those aspects of the curriculum that are more likely to be tested. In sum, rote learning is a good method to score high in written examinations.
Another key justification for upholding this notion is that the results of pen and paper tests may be influenced by external factors like sickness and stress. A salient example of that is a large number of hard-working students who get low scores in pen and paper tests. Some test-takers perform poorly in written exams simply because of anxiety or losing concentration caused by being under time pressure or disturbed by various surrounding noises.
In conclusion, due to the reasons mentioned above, it seems to me that written texts cannot be considered as truly indicative of students' knowledge. Projects and group works can be used as better alternative ways to assess students.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, so, well, for instance, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.5418719212 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 6.10837438424 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 8.36945812808 131% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 5.94088669951 168% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 20.9802955665 67% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 31.9359605911 116% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1472.0 1207.87684729 122% => OK
No of words: 270.0 242.827586207 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45185185185 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 3.92707691288 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93686655897 2.71678728327 108% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 139.433497537 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618518518519 0.580463131201 107% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 379.143842365 119% => 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: 1.0 1.71428571429 58% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 12.6551724138 95% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.5024630542 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6585536986 50.4703680194 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.666666667 104.977214359 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.9669160288 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 7.25397266985 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.33497536946 94% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 2.75862068966 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189571541987 0.242375264174 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0711644846873 0.0925447433944 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0467395664853 0.071462118173 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11133186669 0.151781067708 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.057332388667 0.0609392437508 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 12.6369458128 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 53.1260098522 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 10.9458128079 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 11.5310837438 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.32886699507 112% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 55.0591133005 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.3980295567 104% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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