Whether formal writing examination is a good way to assess students learning?
n this day and age, credibility of formal written examination has become a heated topic of discussion. Debates have been doing rounds with some people supporting standardized tests and other people who are against it. I am strongly inclined to the opinion that although written exams are good to assess students' learning, there are other key methods to analyze students. This essay will critique the advantages and disadvantages of written examination before arriving to a suitable conclusion.
Firstly, formal written tests mainly focus on the students ability to remember and reproduce facts taught in class. Mere reproduction of facts cannot be considered as an efficient way to assess students. It simply overburdens the students with unnecessary competition and stress. Although recapitulation power of a students holds significance, it cannot be thought of as the sole criteria for student assessment.
Secondly, in this era of professionalism, one must be imbibed with skills to climb up the career ladder. These skills include physical, mental and emotional abilities of students. Rather than a pen and paper test, skill tests are of paramount importance to analyze a student. Continuous assessment should be done to analyse where the learner stands.
After diligently analyzing the above points of view, one can undoubtedly say that, there exists several other methods to analyse a student rather than formal written examinations.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.5418719212 85% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 5.94088669951 67% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 20.9802955665 48% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 31.9359605911 97% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.75862068966 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1245.0 1207.87684729 103% => OK
No of words: 222.0 242.827586207 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.60810810811 5.00649968141 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.8600083453 3.92707691288 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00999673598 2.71678728327 111% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 139.433497537 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.644144144144 0.580463131201 111% => OK
syllable_count: 386.1 379.143842365 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.6157635468 108% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.5024630542 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.3000771378 50.4703680194 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7692307692 104.977214359 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0769230769 20.9669160288 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.07692307692 7.25397266985 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.33497536946 56% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 6.9802955665 100% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 2.75862068966 72% => 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: 0.207852922201 0.242375264174 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0671684912015 0.0925447433944 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.045207052322 0.071462118173 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114516351047 0.151781067708 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0529059822761 0.0609392437508 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 12.6369458128 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.1260098522 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.9458128079 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.96 11.5310837438 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.32886699507 114% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 55.0591133005 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.3980295567 85% => 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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