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Quiz 1.7 — Follow the Data

Test yourself on the Follow the Data curriculum and your ability to identify, solve, and explain the questions from the deck.

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Part 1

Module Content

Answer in your own words.

1Command of Evidence has two sub-types. Name them and state what each type of question asks you to do.*

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2Why do we teach students to read the question first? Where in the passage is the claim usually located, and what is the asterisk on the "you don't have to read the whole thing" advice?*

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3List the three steps for claim questions. Explain what "topic match" and "direction match" mean.*

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4What is the "extra step" on claim questions? State the decision rule for when to use it.*

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5Name the five TRAPS and give a one-line definition of each.*

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6List the four steps for data questions. What is the rule about assumptions, and what does "true but doesn't prove" mean?*

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Part 2

Identify and Answer

Each question below is a real College Board question. Solve it, then name the question type.

7Easy. The Milky Way galaxy is composed of millions of stars in a relatively flat structure containing a thin disk and a thick disk. Based on computer simulations and analysis of data on the brightness, position, and chemical composition of about 250,000 stars in the thick disk (collected from two telescopes, one in China and one orbiting in space), astrophysicists Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix claim that the thick disk of the Milky Way formed in two distinct phases rather than a single one. Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers' claim?*

a) There's an age difference of about 2 billion years between certain stars in the thick disk. b) The stars in the Milky Way tend to have very similar chemical compositions. c) The thin disk contains about twice as many stars that can be seen from Earth as the thick disk does. d) The telescopes used by the researchers have detected stars of similar ages in galaxies other than the Milky Way.

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8Easy. Roasted green chiles are a popular ingredient in Southwestern cuisine, but the traditional roasting method of burning propane is not environmentally friendly. To see if solar power could provide a better alternative, engineer Kenneth Armijo and his team roasted batches of green chiles using between 38 and 42 heliostats, which are devices that concentrate sunlight. The team was successful in reaching the same roasting temperature used in traditional propane roasting, but they found that propane yielded faster results. While the fastest solar-roasted green chiles took six minutes, batches using propane took only four. Armijo hypothesizes that they can reduce the roasting time for solar-roasted green chiles by using more heliostats. Which finding, if true, would most directly support Armijo's hypothesis?*

a) Attempts to roast green chiles using 50 heliostats yields results in fewer than six minutes. b) Green chile connoisseurs prefer the flavor of solar-roasted green chiles over the flavor of propane roasted green chiles. c) The skins of solar-roasted green chiles are easier to peel than the skins of propane-roasted green chiles. d) The temperature inside the roasting drum is distributed more evenly when roasting green chiles with solar power than with propane.

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9Medium, quote-match. "To You" is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have not fully understood themselves, writing, ____. Which quotation from "To You" most effectively illustrates the claim?*

a) "You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time." b) "These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense / and interminable as they." c) "I should have made my way straight to you long ago, / I should have blabb'd nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing / but you." d) "I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, / None has understood you, but I understand you."

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10Medium. Hip-hop pedagogy is a form of teaching that's gaining popularity across school subjects. It involves incorporating hip-hop and rap music into lessons as well as using hip-hop elements when teaching other subject matters. For example, Quan Neloms's students look for college-level vocabulary and historical events in rap songs. Researchers claim that in addition to developing students' social justice awareness, hip-hop pedagogy encourages student success by raising students' interest and engagement. Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the underlined claim?*

a) Courses that incorporate hip-hop and rap music are among the courses with the highest enrollment and attendance rates. b) Educators report that they enjoy teaching courses that involve hip-hop and rap music more than teaching courses that don't. c) Students tend to be more enthusiastic about rap music than they are about hip-hop music. d) Students who are highly interested in social justice issues typically don't sign up for courses that incorporate hip-hop and rap music.

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11Medium, claim question in disguise. Considering a large sample of companies, economics experts Maria Guadalupe, Julie Wulf, and Raghuram Rajan assessed the number of managers and leaders from different departments who reported directly to a chief executive officer (CEO). According to the researchers, the findings suggest that across the years analyzed, there was a growing interest among CEOs in connecting with more departments in their companies. Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers' claim?*

a) The average numbers of managers and department leaders reporting directly to their CEO didn't fluctuate from the 1991-1995 period to the 2001-2008 period. b) The average number of managers reporting directly to their CEO was highest in the 1996-2001 period. c) The average number of department leaders reporting directly to their CEO was greater than the average number of managers reporting directly to their CEO in each of the three periods studied. d) The average number of department leaders reporting directly to their CEO rose over the three periods studied.

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12Medium, claim question in disguise. Economists Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens Jr. investigated a variety of factors that influence voter turnout in the United States. Using survey data that revealed whether respondents voted in national elections and how knowledgeable respondents are about politics, Charles and Stephens claim that the likelihood of voting is driven in part by potential voters' confidence in their assessments of candidates: essentially, the more informed voters are about politics, the more confident they are at evaluating whether candidates share their views, and thus the more likely they are to vote. Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers' claim?*

a) At each point on the political orientation scale, high-information voters were more likely than low-information voters to vote. b) Only low-information voters who identify as independents had a voting probability below 50%. c) The closer that low-information voters are to the ends of the political orientation scale, the more likely they are to vote. d) High-information voters were more likely to identify as strong Democrats or strong Republicans than low information voters were.

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Part 3

Teaching Scenarios

Answer as if you were in the session.

13A student picks an answer on a data question and says, "I chose it because it's right there in the chart, it's true." When you check, the answer is accurate but doesn't support the claim in the question. How do you coach this?*

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14A student freezes on a passage full of scientific terms (torpor bouts, arousal episodes, long researcher names). They say, "I don't even know what this is about." How do you get them moving?*

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15You are 15 minutes into one Command of Evidence question. It hinges on a single throwaway clause that quietly reverses the labels. The student's confidence is melting. What do you do, and what do you say to them?*

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16A student reads every passage top to bottom before looking at the question, and keeps running out of time in module two. How do you retrain the order they work in?*

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