1. If you were not here last class…
Be ready to, separately, submit the following assignment:
Research Questions for major topic and subtopic
Raven Analysis stapled to the top of your article; if you did not print your article, do it NOW
Review the class website for what is due on Friday; our test is still on Friday

2. Claims and Evidence, Review
Sample: Chapter 1 – What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
Argument/Thesis
Claim
Evidence

3. EOC A Sample Identify the authors argument, main idea, or thesis
Explain the author’s line of reasoning by identifying the claims used to build the argument and the connections between them.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence the author uses to support the claims made in the argument.

4. EOC A Sample Rubric – 3:6:6 Sample Response Question 1 – 1, 2, 3

5. Sample Questions
“Information asymmetry” refers to the situation in which one party to a transaction:
Is smarter than the other party
Knows everything and the other party knows nothing
Has better information than the other party
Knows only the benefits of the exchange while the other party knows only the costs

6. Sample Questions
“Information asymmetry” refers to the situation in which one party to a transaction:
Is smarter than the other party
Knows everything and the other party knows nothing
Has better information than the other party
Knows only the benefits of the exchange while the other party knows only the costs

7. Sample Questions
According to Freakonomics, the conventional wisdom regarding the cause of or solution to a sticky social problem is often wrong because:
Political pundits and TV journalists are several steps away from “real life”
“experts” sue information available to them to serve their own agenda
Conventional wisdom is usually the first explanation for something and it tends to “stick”
People seldom use quantitative techniques to analyze social problems

8. Sample Questions
According to Freakonomics, the conventional wisdom regarding the cause of or solution to a sticky social problem is often wrong because:
Political pundits and TV journalists are several steps away from “real life”
“experts” use information available to them to serve their own agenda
Conventional wisdom is usually the first explanation for something and it tends to “stick”
People seldom use quantitative techniques to analyze social problems

9. Sample Questions
Based on the ECLS data, which of the following four factors is not correlated, positively or negatively, with children’s test scores?
Parent’s education
Parent’s socioeconomic status
Low birth weight
Having an intact family

10. Sample Questions
Based on the ECLS data, which of the following four factors is not correlated, positively or negatively, with children’s test scores?
Parent’s education
Parent’s socioeconomic status
Low birth weight
Having an intact family

11. Sample Questions
All of the following are examples of “correlation but not causation” except:
Children whose parents are better educated and earn higher incomes tend to experience greater economic success than children whose parents are poorly educated and earn less income
Boys with “white” names tend to earn money than boys with “black” names
The misdeeds of Winner Lane, Temptress, and Amcher landed them all in court
Ice cream sales and death by drowning tend to increase during the hot summer months

12. Sample Questions
All of the following are examples of “correlation but not causation” except:
Children whose parents are better educated and earn higher incomes tend to experience greater economic success than children whose parents are poorly educated and earn less income
Boys with “white” names tend to earn money than boys with “black” names
The misdeeds of Winner Lane, Temptress, and Amcher landed them all in court
Ice cream sales and death by drowning tend to increase during the hot summer months