Studies show that the majority of questions asked in a day are convergent and a small portion divergent. This might be explained because of all of the following except:
A) achievement tests (standardized) use multiple choice items that generally test at lower levels of cognitive complexity
B) the diversity of responses expected from divergent questions may prohibit large amounts of class time devoted to divergent questioning
C) the content best suited for teaching higher order behaviors constitutes only a small amount of the content in existing texts
D) convergent questions are more effective than divergent in testing higher order thinking
D
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