Information and IdeasVery hardFinding that weakens a claim about a school's programme
Information and Ideas practice question
A school claims that its new tutoring programme raised its pupils' exam results, since the pass rate rose from 60% to 75% in the programme's first year.
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the school's claim?
- A. The exam board made the exam easier that year, and pass rates rose by about the same amount at schools with no tutoring programme.Correct
- B. The tutors were qualified teachers.
- C. Pupils said the tutoring was helpful.
- D. The programme cost the school very little.
Answer: A. The exam board made the exam easier that year, and pass rates rose by about the same amount at schools with no tutoring programme.
An easier exam and equal gains elsewhere account for the rise without the programme.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The tutors were qualified teachers.
- Qualified tutors support the claim, if anything.
- C. Pupils said the tutoring was helpful.
- Pupils' opinions support the claim, if anything.
- D. The programme cost the school very little.
- Cost is irrelevant to effect.
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