To assess students' critical thinking abilities, a social studies teacher presented an excerpt from a presidents' State of the Union address and asked students to identify the presidents' assertion, evaluate the logic and the evidence behind that assertion, and draw conclusions about whether the assertion was believable. The teacher was asking students to
(a) judge the credibility of a source.
(b) decide on an action.
(c) analyze an argument.
C
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A. up/up B. down/up C. up/down D. down/down
Building classroom community includes all of the following except
a. providing opportunities for students to connect with each other. b. helping students develop respect for each other's rights and responsibilities. c. involving students in setting common classroom goals for work and behavior. d. teaching and enforcing classroom procedures.
Which term describes the ability to recognize that words are made up of individual speech sounds?
a. syntax b. syllabication c. phonemic awareness d. decoding strategies
Stimulation is important to brain development because
A. reduced stimulation can impede motor development B. reduced stimulation can be linked to certain learning disabilities C. visualization and auditory skills are linked to early stimulation D. All of the above E. None of the above