Editorial: Painting involves a sequential

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: as undemanding as possible1% picked this

   in the educator's initial contact with a student, the educator should be as

   The concept of "undemanding" doesn't really match up with anything. And the extreme tone of "be as X as possible" also doesn't match up. We'd love to hear something like, "The educator's initial contacts with the student are the most important steps in education", because we think that completing the analogy means stressing that the early layers of education are the most important. But the concept of being "as undemanding as possible" is too alien.

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2. B

   Out of Scope31% picked this

   students who have a secure grasp of the fundamentals of a subject are likely to make

   Out of Scope: likely to make progress We think that completing the analogy means stressing that the early layers of education are the most important. So this answer somewhat goes off that gist, since it seems to acknowledge that "the fundamentals" are an important indicator of success. But it gets more specific than the analogy gets. We never hear that "painters who do a good job preparing their painting surface and applying primer are likely to make progress in their painting". We just heard that those are the most important steps. We could tell a rodeo rider that the most important steps to staying on the bull are X and Y. But that doesn't mean we're saying, "If you do steps X and Y well, you're likely to stay on the bull". We really just mean, "If you do steps X and Y well, you're more likely to stay on the bull".

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3. C

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   educators who are not achieving the goals they intended should revise

   This doesn't seem to be completing the analogy at all. It has nothing to do with saying that the initial steps of education are the most important steps. We don't have anything about painters who are failing to achieve their goals needing to revise their painting methods.

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4. D

   Unrelated to Goal0% picked this

   teaching new students is rewarding but much more difficult than teaching

   This doesn't seem to be completing the analogy at all. It has nothing to do with saying that the initial steps of education are the most important steps. It's comparing newer students to advanced students, and we don't have anything about newer painters vs. advanced painters.

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5. E

   Correct67% picked this

   the success of a student's overall educational experience depends above all upon that student's

   Why this is right

   This seems strongly worded (potential red flag), but we did want something that said "the initial steps of education are the most important steps", so we're justified in looking for some pretty strong wording. We were told that in painting, the most important layers are the initial ones (preparing the surface and applying primer). If you don't properly apply those layers, then subsequent layers won't adhere in a satisfactory (i.e. successful) manner. So by analogy, the initial layers of educational experience are most important, and if we don't apply them properly then subsequent layers will be unsuccessful.

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

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