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16 Sep 2014, 02:25
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In recent years, directors of remedial reading programs have struggled to find a way to provide their students with sustained independent reading practice with texts that challenge students to apply their word-decoding and phonics skills without overwhelming them. In response to this quandary, Roger Wade, the director of a private corporation known as the Reading Readiness Institute, piloted a system of in-class assessment that would, ideally, have allowed teachers to make individual recommendations for the difficulty level of book each student could read independently with the most success. The six Institute teachers testing the program were required to build two 10-15 assessment periods into each class session, during which they would use company-issued Reading Rating Sheets to evaluate each student’s performance on a specific section of text, which came from a book of pre-determined difficulty. Teachers would then assign students one of three rankings – A, B, or C – based on their comfort with the text on the Rating Sheets. Parents were also required to complete short Homework Surveys, which provided teachers with additional, but similarly-focused, information about student reading at home.
The program was temporarily discontinued after only 6 weeks, however, when all six teachers protested that the addition of assessment periods had forced them to drop other activities that they considered vital from their curricula. Teachers also complained that time spent assessing individual students took attention from general classroom management. The Reading Readiness Institute has taken teacher complaints into account and is currently adjusting its individual assessment program.
The author uses the word "ideally" (click to highlight) primarily in order to
A. suggest that the individual assessment program was doomed from the beginning.
B. introduce the concept of individual recommendations for independent reading.
C. highlight the good intentions of the assessment program while acknowledging its failure.
D. forestall argument about the eventual success of the program.
E. draw attention to the fact that the program was the idea of the Institute’s director.
The program was temporarily discontinued after only 6 weeks, however, when all six teachers protested that the addition of assessment periods had forced them to drop other activities that they considered vital from their curricula. Teachers also complained that time spent assessing individual students took attention from general classroom management. The Reading Readiness Institute has taken teacher complaints into account and is currently adjusting its individual assessment program.
The author uses the word "ideally" (click to highlight) primarily in order to
A. suggest that the individual assessment program was doomed from the beginning.
B. introduce the concept of individual recommendations for independent reading.
C. highlight the good intentions of the assessment program while acknowledging its failure.
D. forestall argument about the eventual success of the program.
E. draw attention to the fact that the program was the idea of the Institute’s director.
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In recent years, directors of remedial reading programs have struggled to find a way to provide their students with sustained independent reading practice with texts that challenge students to apply their word-decoding and phonics skills without overwhelming them. In response to this quandary, Roger Wade, the director of a private corporation known as the Reading Readiness Institute, piloted a system of in-class assessment that would, ideally, have allowed teachers to make individual recommendations for the difficulty level of book each student could read independently with the most success. The six Institute teachers testing the program were required to build two 10-15 assessment periods into each class session, during which they would use company-issued Reading Rating Sheets to evaluate each student’s performance on a specific section of text, which came from a book of pre-determined difficulty. Teachers would then assign students one of three rankings – A, B, or C – based on their comfort with the text on the Rating Sheets. Parents were also required to complete short Homework Surveys, which provided teachers with additional, but similarly-focused, information about student reading at home.
The program was temporarily discontinued after only 6 weeks, however, when all six teachers protested that the addition of assessment periods had forced them to drop other activities that they considered vital from their curricula. Teachers also complained that time spent assessing individual students took attention from general classroom management. The Reading Readiness Institute has taken teacher complaints into account and is currently adjusting its individual assessment program.
The author uses the word "ideally" (click to highlight) primarily in order to
A. suggest that the individual assessment program was doomed from the beginning.
B. introduce the concept of individual recommendations for independent reading.
C. highlight the good intentions of the assessment program while acknowledging its failure.
D. forestall argument about the eventual success of the program.
E. draw attention to the fact that the program was the idea of the Institute’s director.
To find the purpose of this word choice, review the context in which it occurs. It occurs in this line (piloted a system of in-class assessment that would, ideally, have allowed teachers to make individual recommendations for the difficulty level of book where each student could read independently with the most success), in the middle of a sentence linking ideas about a problem found in remedial reading programs with a solution proposed by the director of the Reading Readiness Institute. After finishing the passage, it becomes clear that the program was not ultimately successful; the word ideally, then, serves as a signal that performance did not live up to intention. The overall tone of the passage, however, is positive, indicating that the author likely considers individual assessment a good idea.
Answer: C
In recent years, directors of remedial reading programs have struggled to find a way to provide their students with sustained independent reading practice with texts that challenge students to apply their word-decoding and phonics skills without overwhelming them. In response to this quandary, Roger Wade, the director of a private corporation known as the Reading Readiness Institute, piloted a system of in-class assessment that would, ideally, have allowed teachers to make individual recommendations for the difficulty level of book each student could read independently with the most success. The six Institute teachers testing the program were required to build two 10-15 assessment periods into each class session, during which they would use company-issued Reading Rating Sheets to evaluate each student’s performance on a specific section of text, which came from a book of pre-determined difficulty. Teachers would then assign students one of three rankings – A, B, or C – based on their comfort with the text on the Rating Sheets. Parents were also required to complete short Homework Surveys, which provided teachers with additional, but similarly-focused, information about student reading at home.
The program was temporarily discontinued after only 6 weeks, however, when all six teachers protested that the addition of assessment periods had forced them to drop other activities that they considered vital from their curricula. Teachers also complained that time spent assessing individual students took attention from general classroom management. The Reading Readiness Institute has taken teacher complaints into account and is currently adjusting its individual assessment program.
The author uses the word "ideally" (click to highlight) primarily in order to
A. suggest that the individual assessment program was doomed from the beginning.
B. introduce the concept of individual recommendations for independent reading.
C. highlight the good intentions of the assessment program while acknowledging its failure.
D. forestall argument about the eventual success of the program.
E. draw attention to the fact that the program was the idea of the Institute’s director.
To find the purpose of this word choice, review the context in which it occurs. It occurs in this line (piloted a system of in-class assessment that would, ideally, have allowed teachers to make individual recommendations for the difficulty level of book where each student could read independently with the most success), in the middle of a sentence linking ideas about a problem found in remedial reading programs with a solution proposed by the director of the Reading Readiness Institute. After finishing the passage, it becomes clear that the program was not ultimately successful; the word ideally, then, serves as a signal that performance did not live up to intention. The overall tone of the passage, however, is positive, indicating that the author likely considers individual assessment a good idea.
- Though the assessment program was not ultimately successful, the word doomed is too strong for the general tone of the passage.
- The word ideally does not serve to introduce this concept.
- The word ideally indicates that author’s sense that the program had a noble goal, even while acknowledging that it was ultimately discontinued.
- There is no argument to be prevented. The passage states that the program was temporarily discontinued.
- The word ideally does not serve this function in the passage.
Answer: C
30 Oct 2015, 21:36
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V05-27 explanation
This question requires an inference drawn from information stated explicitly in the passage.
option E -Though the individual assessment program may be classified as short-lived, this is not the problem discussed by the passage.
Please clarify the doubt-
In my understanding- the individual assessment program is short lived because it faced a problem , and the problem is the protest by teachers due to some reasons.
Isn't my understanding correct ? If so , then option E is the right choice .
This question requires an inference drawn from information stated explicitly in the passage.
option E -Though the individual assessment program may be classified as short-lived, this is not the problem discussed by the passage.
Please clarify the doubt-
In my understanding- the individual assessment program is short lived because it faced a problem , and the problem is the protest by teachers due to some reasons.
Isn't my understanding correct ? If so , then option E is the right choice .
