The new system implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of tenure-track faculty returned ambiguous results, which suggests that its process of data collection may be defective, its methodologies require revision.
A. The new system implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of tenure-track faculty returned ambiguous results, which suggests that its process of data collection may be defective,
WRONG- "which suggests" the use of which is wrong and suggests doesn't agree with ambiguous results.
there are two items in the list, there needs to be a conjunction.
its process of.....its methodologies
B. The new system implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of tenure-track faculty returned ambiguous results, suggesting that its process of data collection may be defective and that
CORRECTThe comma + verb-ing modifier “suggesting” correctly shows the result of the action (the system returning ambiguous results) presented in the preceding clause.
This choice makes the clause “its methodologies…” parallel to the preceding clause by using “and that”. Both items are parallel
C. Implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of tenure-track faculty, the new system that returned ambiguous results suggests that its process of data collection may be defective and that
WRONG- This choice changes the intended meaning of the sentence. According to this choice, the system itself makes the two suggestions.
D. Implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of tenure-track faculty, the ambiguous results returned by the new system suggest that its process of data collection may be defective and that
WRONG- “implemented…” incorrectly refers to the subject of the following clause, “the ambiguous results”. This is incorrect since the results were not implemented the system was.
E. The new system implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of tenure-track faculty returned ambiguous results; this suggests that its process of data collection may be defective and that
WRONG- "this suggests" it is not clear was this is referring to.
ANS- B