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= Elimination = | |||
* On any multiple-choice question, the test-taker is presented with | |||
** a set of wrong answers designed to fool the test taker | |||
** a single correct answer similarly designed to fool the test-taker. | |||
* thereby, the test-taker must employ an elimination strategy that approaches every possible answer '''with distrust'''. | |||
=== The correct answer is not the best answer: it is the only answer that has no error === | |||
* wrong answers are designed to fool the student into making an incorrect association with the evidence | |||
* correct answers are designed to hide the correct association with the evidence | |||
=== Eliminate for errors, do not select for correctness === | |||
* make every possible answer account for itself | |||
* test it against the evedience | |||
* do not infer what is not there | |||
=== Inference === | |||
* is... given certain evidence we can conlude that... | |||
* is not ... given certain evidence we can insert new evidence | |||
=== Elimination types === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|'''Evidence''' | |||
|states | |||
|suggests | |||
|concludes | |||
|- | |||
|'''Inference''' | |||
|suggests | |||
|infers | |||
|draws | |||
|- | |||
|'''Degree''' | |||
|error of specificity | |||
|error of generality | |||
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|} | |||
= Reading Strategies quick start guide = | = Reading Strategies quick start guide = | ||