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I don't necessarily agree with the explanation. Answer option E would fall under the twenty instruments as well, since assignment of group activities to individual activities would fall under instructional methods. Please elaborate why wouldn't that be the case or am I missing something
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I don't necessarily agree with the explanation. Answer option E would fall under the twenty instruments as well, since assignment of group activities to individual activities would fall under instructional methods. Please elaborate why wouldn't that be the case or am I missing something
I had similar thoughts and while I was typing a reply to ask for an explanation, I realized that answer choice E is about a teaching strategy/instructional method BUT the question is to the student ("my instructor") and students were not asked about teaching strategies or instructional methods. So the explanation makes sense now on why this question could not have been a part of the survey (for students).
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Thank you so much for clarifying and drawing my attention to this question.
I have expanded the explanation to this question quite a bit to make it easier to understand and hopefully reduce the confusion. I have also slightly tweaked the text to make it slightly more readable (though that makes it easier).

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I don't necessarily agree with the explanation. Answer option E would fall under the twenty instruments as well, since assignment of group activities to individual activities would fall under instructional methods. Please elaborate why wouldn't that be the case or am I missing something
I had similar thoughts and while I was typing a reply to ask for an explanation, I realized that answer choice E is about a teaching strategy/instructional method BUT the question is to the student ("my instructor") and students were not asked about teaching strategies or instructional methods. So the explanation makes sense now on why this question could not have been a part of the survey (for students).
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I think this is a high-quality question and I agree with explanation.
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I think this is a high-quality question and I agree with explanation. This is one of the better questions in the set. although challenging it does make sense and the solution provided is helpful.
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I am still confused. Considering the explanation " The phrasing of each item was slightly altered for a corresponding survey of instructors, with "my instructor" changed to "I" ", there is only one “standard instrument” — a single survey design — but two slightly modified versions of that survey were used:
Student version: e.g., "My instructor explains the purpose of critical thinking."
Instructor version: e.g., "I explain the purpose of critical thinking."
Moreover, in the second passage, it says "Out of twenty direct and indirect instructional methods included in the survey, only four methods exhibited correlations with student perceptions that were statistically significant."
In order to measure correlations between the perceptions of students and instructors, all the 20 items should correspond to each other.
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This is a great question that’s helpful for learning. But I can't see this question as a hard one, it could be easy or medium level.
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This is a great question that’s helpful for learning. But I can't see this question as a hard one, it could be easy or medium level.

Thank you for the feedback. The difficulty level is automatically set, so I can’t comment much on that 😇
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