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Information and Ideas practice question
A school claims that its daily reading hour has improved pupils' reading.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. Pupils' scores on the same reading test rose by a full year's expected progress in the six months after the reading hour began.Correct
- B. Pupils say they enjoy the reading hour.
- C. The school library has more books than before.
- D. Teachers read aloud during the hour.
Answer: A. Pupils' scores on the same reading test rose by a full year's expected progress in the six months after the reading hour began.
Measured progress after the change.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Pupils say they enjoy the reading hour.
- Enjoyment is not improvement.
- C. The school library has more books than before.
- Books are not reading.
- D. Teachers read aloud during the hour.
- A description of the hour, not its effect.
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