Logical Reasoning

PT137 · S2 · Q17 Educator: Some experimental educational

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Educator: Some experimental educational programs, based on the principle that children's first education should take place at home, instruct parents in how to be their child's "first teacher."

Evidence

Experimental educational programs, based on the principle that children’s first education should take place at home, instruct parents in how to be their child’s “first teacher.”

The school performance of the children in these programs is better than average.

Conclusion

Experimental educational programs, based on the principle that children’s first education should take place at home, are successful and should be expanded.

Evaluate

The argument establishes a correlation between experimental educational programs better than average school performance. This argument fails to consider alternative causes of the better than average performance or whether expanding programs to more children would yield similar results.

17.

Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the educator's argument?

  1. Not all small children enjoy

    Out of Scope

    Whether or not small children enjoy being taught by their parents is not relevant to whether that instruction improves the children’s performance.

    1% picked this

  2. Correct

    Most of the parents participating

    Why this is right

    This weakens the argument by providing a possible alternative explanation for why the children performed better than average in school.

    Skill tested: Weaken · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    83% picked this

  3. Surveys show that most parents

    Strengthen

    This supports the view that these programs should be expanded.

    0% picked this

  4. The cost of expanding the

    Too Weak

    This fails to provide a significant reason not to expand these experimental educational programs.

    0% picked this

  5. Some children who did not

    Too Weak

    The argument is about average student performance, so the children in this answer are too few to represent a significant counterexample.

    15% picked this

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