Self-study
Educator: If there is a crisis in education today, it is one of maintaining quality. ██████ ████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████████ ██ ███████ ███ █████████████ ███ ███ ████ ███ ██████ █████ ███████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ███████ ███████ ████ ████████ ████ ██ ██████ ████ ████ ████████ ███ ███████████ ███ ████████ ███ ██████ ████████████
Summary
Crisis in education today→ crisis of maintaining quality
People love to reduce serious learning to degrees and certificates
It is possible to obtain degrees and certificates without learning much of value.
Earned certificates or degrees by plodding through courses without learning→ those credentials or degrees are almost meaningless.
Notable Valid Inferences
It is possible to obtain degrees and certificates without learning much of value.
3.
If the educator's statements are █████ ████ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ████ ██ █████
a
Increasingly, institutions are ████████ ███████████ ███████ ███ █████████████
This could be false. We are given criteria to describe meaningless credentials; we don’t know how many meaningless credentials are granted or if the rate of granting meaningless credentials is increasing.
b
It has become ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ████████ █████ ██████████ ███████ ████████ ████████ ██ ███████████
This could be false. It is possible that plodding through courses is difficult––the stimulus gives no information on how easy something is.
c
Educational institutions should █████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ █████████████
This could be false. The stimulus does not contain any recommendation for the actions that educational institutions should take.
d
Degrees and certificates ██ ███ █████████ ████ █ ██████ ███ ████████ ████ ██████████ ██████████
This must be true. From the stimulus, we know that it is possible to obtain degrees and certificates without learning much of value.
e
A person benefits ████ ██ █████████ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ██ ██ ███ ███████ ██████ ██ ███
This could be false. The stimulus does not specify under what conditions one benefits from an education.