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Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by 30 percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in grades, believe that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately reflect student achievement; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors.

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

In the argument above, the aruguer concludes that to enable its
graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate
student evaluation of professors. To justify the recommendation, the
arguer provides the evidence that the potential employers regard the
grades at Omega as an inflated one and do not believe it can reflect the
achievement of students accurately. In addition, the arguer also cites
that the graduates of the Omega have failed to get better jobs
compared with the graduates in Alpha University. The claim above may
sounds reasonable at first glance, but after close scrunity of each
evidence mentioned above, however, reveals that none of them lend
credible support to the recommendation.

In the first place, the author basis the claim partly on the fact that
potential employers don't trust the dramatic rise in grades after the
procedure of evaluation. However, this conclusion is invalid and probably
misleading without providing the evidence that Omega professors assign
higher grades in their classes just because they are under the big
pressure of the new procedure of the evaluation and the grades are
truly unwarranted to reflect of the achivement of the students. Lacking
such evidence, on the one hand, it is equally possible that the professors
only evaluate their students with their recent behavior without the
affect of the new procedure. On the other hand, perhaps, the number of
students is not that big and in that case, 30 percent rise in grade
doesn't mean a dramactic rise, so the grades ar Omega are still valid as
before. Without accounting for these and other possibilities, the author
cannot draw the conclusion hastily.

Admittedly, to further support the claim the author simply reasons
that Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as
graduates from nearby Alpha University. Another piece of evidence that
might help us evaluate this claim involves whether the condition of
graduates of both universities are equal. It is true that employers'
distrust may have some negative influence in finding the job, however,
we cannot ensure that the condition of students of both universities are
always equally the same, in that case, this fact would further undermine
author's assertion.

Last but not least, for additional support the author implies that
Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors. But
if we accept this implication, we might conclude that without student's
evaluation, the professor might concentrate less on helping sudents find
the job, which maybe have little effect on enabling the graduates to
secure better jobs. It is obvious to see that the author fails to make
this recommendation cleary. To further evaluate the assumption, we may
need the evidence that professors will do what he can to help the
graduates find the job without the students' evaluation. Without such
evidence the argument can be rejected out of hand.

To sum up, the author's evidence lends little credible support to the
claim. To persuade me that Omega University should terminate student
evaluation of professors, the author would need to provide clear
evidence that the grades of the students at Omega University can not
truly reflect of their achievement and that the condition of each
university are equal. Finally, to better evaluate the claim we would need
more information that professors will concentrate more on helping
students get jobs without the procedure of the evaluation.