Self-paced
Support Formal performance evaluations in the professional world are conducted using realistic situations. ██████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███████ ███████ █████ ███████ █████████ ███ █████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ███ █████████ ████ █████ ███████ ██ ████ ███ █████ ██████████ █████████ █████ ██████ ████████ ████ ██████ ██ █████ █████████ ████████ ████ ████ █████████████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that students should have access to their textbooks when they take exams because people in the professional world have access to reference materials.
Identify and Describe Flaw
The author reasons that because workers have access to reference materials in the professional world, students should also have access to their textbooks when taking exams. However, the author’s reasoning is questionable because it ignores the possibility that students don’t have access to textbooks during exams for legitimate reasons or that student performance evaluations test different things than are tested in the professional world.
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The strength of the author’s examples is irrelevant. We’re focusing on whether the author’s reasoning for arguing that students should have access to textbooks during exams is sound.
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The effect the author’s recommendation would have on test scores is irrelevant to whether the reasoning in the author’s argument is sound.
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We don’t know if the author took this into account, but regardless, the fact that professionals were once students has no bearing on the strength of the author’s argument that students should have access to textbooks during exams.
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We don’t know if the author took this into account, but regardless, the fact that professionals have devoted years to studying one subject has no bearing on the soundness of the author’s reasoning.
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This describes a possibility that the author ignores. If the purposes of evaluation in the professional world differ from those in school, it may be well-reasoned that students aren’t allowed access to textbooks even though professionals have access to reference materials.