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Please help me to imporve my writing for Analytical Task. I am going to take test very soon.
Educators should base their assessment of students’ learning not on students’ grasp of facts but on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Contemporary educators encounter various challenges regarding to their approaches to academic appraisal. As sources of knowledge and examples of critical thinking, educators aspire to deliver educational value by igniting in their students abilities to see patterns behind many, often seemingly different, events, while also encouraging them to think outside the box and challenge the established theories and concepts. Although it is of paramount importance to transcend any context and be innovative, I maintain that students should learn how to identify the core and fundamental laws and trends behind the concrete and mundane experiences of everyday lives in the first place.
For one thing, abstract thinking, that is seeing patterns and commonalities in phenomena around us, is what distinguishes us from other animals. It is this mode of thinking that sparked development of the human civilization. Indeed, without having an ability to understand and explain correlations and cause and effect relationships between facts, people would have stayed at the developmental stage of a 3-year-old child, who is vulnerable and helpless without a support of an adult. Indeed, life is complex, and knowing by a person just the limited amount of facts will not yield any advancements both in his and society’s life, therefore, it is crucially that educators put the emphasis on making sure that students can tie facts they observe with the established theories and truths about our world.
Additionally, the invaluable heritage that the humanity has accumulated so far in the form of statistically significant scientific results and discoveries, well-developed philosophical ideas, and thoroughly studied cultural phenomena, should be assimilated by students in the first place. It is pivotal to recognize the immense value in this legacy for today’s success in any realm of human excellence, and, thus, it should be applicable to each and every student. Take for instance, mechanical engineering, where the unified knowledge of how machines operate at the physical level is indispensable for constructing and designing various automobiles, airplanes, and other vehicles. Or, take medical research that heavily relies on the fundamentals of human body functions, which are identical across population. It is only through recognizing the common patterns of drug effects on seemingly different volunteers for medical research, doctors can discover new treatments for the entire society. In light of this, it is paramount that future professionals are capable of discerning trends and common grounds in a full array of instances; hence educators should test them according to such indicators.
Yet some might disagree saying that only by challenging the established theories and testing commonly accepted approaches do people can revolutionize a society, and therefore, every case should be considered on its own without referring to what is known. Indeed, it might be the case, yet we should acknowledge the fact that before making any real and scientifically based advancements one should be capable of grasping and utilizing what have already been established as the truth and and what the humanity has been building upon for the centuries. Indeed, it is only through passing such knowledge over generations, people have succeeded in solving many problems related to their existence. Given that, educators should make sure that the accumulated knowledge in the form of theories, concepts, ideas are handed in to the subsequent generations, and students are the primary carriers of such knowledge.
Overall, though it might be true that scientific revolution of society is triggered by works of pioneers, we should bear in mind that their success is built upon the established findings which have to be assimilated and utilized before any revolution can happen.
