Teachers are effective only when they help

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TopicsMust be False

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Stimulus

Teachers are effective only when they help their students become independent learners. Yet not until teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms can they enable their students to make their own decisions. Students’ capability to make their own decisions is essential to their becoming independent learners. have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms.

What this question is testing

Must be False

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question

23.

According to the argument, each of the following could be true of teachers who have enabled their students to make

Answer choices

Could Be True9% picked this
Their students have not become independent
Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. They may or may not be effective teachers. They may or may not help their students become independent learners.
9%
Could Be True10% picked this
They are not effective
Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. They may or may not be effective teachers. They may or may not help their students become independent learners.
10%
Could Be True1% picked this
They are effective
Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. They may or may not be effective teachers. They may or may not help their students become independent learners.
1%
Must Be True2% picked this
They have the power to make decisions in their
Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms.
2%
Correct77% picked this
They do not have the power to make decisions in their
Why this is right
Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. Thus, this answer must be false.
Skill tested: Must be False · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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