Craft and StructureHardApplying a caution to a claim
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Before concluding that a school's results improved because of a new method, education researcher Kofi Asante advises checking whether the school's intake changed at the same time.
Text 2
A school's exam pass rate rose from 60% to 80% in the three years after it adopted a new teaching method, which the head attributes to the method.
Based on the texts, how would Asante most likely respond to the head's attribution?
- A. By asking whether the pupils entering the school over those three years differed from earlier intakes.Correct
- B. By agreeing that the method caused the rise.
- C. By arguing that the method should be abandoned.
- D. By denying that the pass rate rose.
Answer: A. By asking whether the pupils entering the school over those three years differed from earlier intakes.
Asante's check: did the intake change?
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that the method caused the rise.
- His caution argues against that conclusion as it stands.
- C. By arguing that the method should be abandoned.
- Not proposed.
- D. By denying that the pass rate rose.
- The rise is not disputed.
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