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8.78 Evaluate a Speaker's Claims Worksheet

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Evaluate a Speaker's Claims — ELA.8.78: Evaluate a Speaker's Claims. Practice evaluate a speaker's claims with grade 8 speaking and listening questions

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Problem 1Difficulty: Mastery

Which evaluation best explains why the speaker’s conclusion is not well supported?

AAttendance is the only purpose of any school program.

BA 94% attendance rate proves students are absent on purpose.

CThe speaker should compare breakfast menus, not attendance.

DThe speaker uses the wrong measure and ignores timing and other factors; equal attendance doesn’t prove the breakfast program is ineffective.

Solution & Explanation:The speaker assumes free breakfast should change attendance and treats unchanged attendance as proof of failure. But the goal may be nutrition, the program started midyear, and other factors (like illness) affect attendance. So the evidence doesn’t support ending the program.

Problem 2Difficulty: Mastery

Which reasoning issue is most central to the speaker’s conclusion?

AHe defines reading scores too clearly.

BHe shows electives cause low reading by comparing four schools.

CHe assumes electives cause low reading scores without accounting for confounding factors that may influence both electives offered and scores.

DHe provides too much context about funding.

Solution & Explanation:The chart is correlational and ignores other variables (funding, class size, poverty) that can affect scores and elective offerings. The conclusion claims causation without controlling confounders.

Problem 3Difficulty: Mastery

Which piece of missing information is most important to judge whether the policy helps students overall?

AWhether the teacher likes grading late work

BWhether students prefer digital or paper assignments

CWhether students’ learning outcomes (scores/understanding) improved or worsened after the policy, not just on-time submission rates

DWhether the class meets in the morning

Solution & Explanation:Turning in more work on time doesn’t necessarily mean students learned more or did better. To evaluate the claim, you need evidence about learning outcomes, not only compliance.

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