题目:ARGUMENT9 - The following appeared in a memorandum from a dean at Omega University.
"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 thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why 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 now terminate student evaluation of professors."
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The dean of Omega University contends that the University should terminate student evaluation of professors that posed 15 years age so that ensure its graduates to seek better jobs. The dean views this procedure induce in the enhance of the grades and thus the potential employers regard the grades meaninglessness and so the students was less competitive than the students from Alpha. This case seems logic. However, it carries amount of flaws needed to exam cautiously.
The memo informs me that this procedure just encouraged the students to do so. It didn't suggest whether the students did so. Perhaps few students did. So the conclusion based on this procedure brings about higher grades is incorrect. Besides, even if the students did evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors very well in terms of the number of participants and the attitude of them, there were other reasons why the grades become higher. Indeed, perhaps by virtue of this procedure, the professors realized the aspects that should be advanced, and thus the teaching effectiveness was improved and then the grades naturally were assigned higher examined by the same examination paper as the previous students did. Or perhaps the students entered at that time were more diligent and more qualified than ever before. So they rewarded a higher grade. In addition, maybe other improvement in the teaching effectiveness influences the grades.
Secondly, the students have less appeal to the employer than the students of Alpha University. This can't completely owe to the higher grades. The employers entirely probably did not see the grades at all. Even if they saw the grades, the employers perhaps viewed the grades as nothing. Common sense tells me, employers prefer to exam the overall ability of the students, such as communication, corporation, obligation and so forth. In another word, not only the grades decided whether the students can enter the company. Furthermore, perhaps A.U. organized more effectively the students to hunt jobs than O.U. did, or perhaps A.U. devoted to improving their quality on teaching. Perhaps A.U. provided more part-jobs for students to prepare for the future works. These elements enhance the possibility in finding jobs. So the higher grades can't amount to the fewer jobs for the students of O.U..
Finally, to improve the current state to help students find better jobs, O.U. can develop the ability of students referred above, provide more opportunity to participate as a would-be employees and try to improve the hunting-job organize system.