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In order to become a teacher, one has to go to college and earn a degree along with a teaching license and certification. Years of studying and mastering the material provides them with the tools needed to teach their students the subject. Students go to school in order to learn. If they do not know the material, how d...
Evidence
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Charts, flip charts, and simulations are all used by most teachers to show information that is important. In the summer, students aren't going to want to do homework regardless but if the project is set up with clear and concise directions, it makes the work seem less daunting otherwise. For example, if a student had p...
Evidence
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If students were given the opportunity to create their own summer assignment, it would most likely end up being under 5 questions with minimal work needed to be done in order to complete it. This does not help the students in any way, shape, or form. Teenagers look for the quick and easy results that aren't as availabl...
Evidence
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If they had the opportunity to create their own project it would be beneficial to them because they are willing to put in the work.
Counterclaim
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Teachers can't trust that all students are like that though because each kid is different and most likely, when given the chance, the student will take the day to go to the pool rather than sit at home and do their own research about Stem Cell research.
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Education, is in the hands of each individual and what they choose to make of it is up to them, but teachers should be there to guide and educate their students into making the right choices with their education. Although at the time, their students might respond to the summer assignment with a groan, it is in their be...
Concluding Statement
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The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable
Position
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The reason for this is that you can tell weather the person is really smiling or not
Claim
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The computer software FACS (Facial Action Coding System) can classify 6 basic emotions like happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The passage states that the computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face;all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more mus...
Evidence
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The computer can tell weather you are happy or sad
Claim
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Like in the passage it says that for an example, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different
Evidence
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A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it can modify the lesson like an effective human instructor.
Claim
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The evidence from this passage shows that the use of this technology to read the emotional exspressions of students in a classroom is very helpful. like stated in the claim and passage "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective ...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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In "The challenge of the Exploring Venus" it shows alot of the good and bad of studies that will help us understand why the author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
Position
Adequate
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The article stated that it is one of the brightest point of light in the sky.
Evidence
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Vince is the 2rd closest plant to the sun
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which meaning 800 degrees fahrenheit and the presseure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. 170 degrees fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth, although Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though Mercury is cl...
Evidence
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Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit.
Claim
Adequate
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Asronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may erll once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system and i trust that the astronomers would say that because we still think that Mar would be our planetary visit. Although humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on the "cloud-draped world" as they ca...
Evidence
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Researcher cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance, Venus would need to get uo close and personal
Claim
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despite the risks, they are working on innovations that allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus, and some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simlating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such condit...
Evidence
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What i think of all of this is that the author us right to suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the danger and chaos it represents human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Eather and beyond should not be limited by dangers and boubts but should be ex...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I do not agree with technology to read students emotional expressions should be used because it is just a waste of money.
Position
Adequate
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I honestly believe that teachers or former students should know when someone is upset angry or happy. I mean it would be irrelavent for a school to spend thouasands of dollars to know when someone is upset. Teachers should be able to see if their own students would be upset.
Evidence
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Schools could spend the money on more important things
Claim
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like for textbooks gym equipment sports classrooms or even build another part to the school not some emotion detector
Evidence
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But hey it is 2018 anything could happen. In paragraph 5 it states "In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." DR. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instruc...
Evidence
Ineffective
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In this artical the auther explains why exploring Venus is a good idea
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by stating that it is the closest to earth in size,dencity,and mass aswell as being the cosest in distance.
Claim
Adequate
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He aso states that it could help us get better at sace travel.
Claim
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In paragrah one he is talking about how Venus is closely similar to Earth in size shae an mass by saying
Claim
Adequate
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Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of Density and size, and occasinally the closest in distance too."
Evidence
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He also states in paragrah five that NASA is working on a methid to buuild on Venus by having large floting blimps that fly over the death and missery of the planets serfice.
Evidence
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exploring Benus could also bring about new methids of taraforming to make a planets serfice hospidible. Exploring Venus could also bring about new ways to space travle and new technology.
Claim
Adequate
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In paragraph seven the auther mentions mechanical computers that dont relay on electricity and small and insitive chips but insted rely on gears and clock works.
Evidence
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So all in all exploring venus is a goodish idea if we can figure out how to actualy , one make it there and two figure out how to sistain a perminant bace. there is plenty of good evidence in this artical about space exploration and the such and why i think Venus is an exoplanet (a planet that culd or has sistain life...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," a man creates a program that can detect human emotion. That man is Professor Thomas Huang. The program he created can detect on how a person is truly feeling. I only know 6 emotions so far and they are happiness, anger, sadness, surprise, fear, and disgust
Lead
Adequate
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The program could lead to major scientific/artistic break throughs.
Position
Ineffective
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The program uses muscle identification to determine what emotion the person is making.
Claim
Adequate
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A specific muscle is used to make an emotion. For example, the zygomatic major is used to move the lips up to make a smile. The zygomatic major and the risorius is used to force a smile like if you feel awkward, depressed, or upset but doesn't want to show it. So even the program can tell if you are forcing a smile or ...
Evidence
Adequate
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Expressing emotions everyday could improve how you actually feel and you may get more out of life than you would with a straight face
Claim
Adequate
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People will think you are are happy if you smile, sad if you frown, content if you have a straight face, etc. People analyze how you are feeling to share iin your happiness, make you feel better so you are no longer sad, and calm you down if you are angry.
Evidence
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With this program, people can now understand human emotions better than than naked eye. This kind of program could be used in therapy sessions, doctor's offices, and hospitals.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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This artical,"The Challenge of Exploring Venus," is the authors way to give ideas on how to help get closer to Venus
Position
Adequate
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the author starts out with how and what Venus looks like. The author also compares Venus to Earth and says "[It's] Often reffered to as Earth's "twin."'
Evidence
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The author's article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," has a very good look into why we need to explore and learn more about Venus. The athor even gives ideas/ways for NASA to be able to explore Venus. Examples like "...NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists...
Evidence
Adequate
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To end off on a good term, the author had put in time to let people know that we should think smarter not harder to be able to see closer into what Venus is hiding. The Author says "...Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doughts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginati...
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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Studying venus would be really interesting but venus is hard to study because it´s dangerous and it has really high pressure.
Position
Ineffective
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Venus is sometimes known as earth´s twin because venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size.
Claim
Adequate
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Scientist have tried to get to get numerous spacecrafts on venus but no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Venus is one of the hardest planet to study and research. It´s hard for astrounauts to go to venus because temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time...
Evidence
Adequate
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If NASA sent humans to venus it would be really hard for the astronauts to land because it has hostile conditions on the surface of venus.
Claim
Adequate
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When the humans would land on venus the air pressure would be close to some of the levels in the sea and the temperature would be toasty.
Evidence
Adequate
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In conclusion, venus has challenging things it presents and it would make it very hard for people in NASA to put human life on a planet that has very high air pressure and temperature that we are not used having on earth.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Every summer students are required to complete a project to ensure learning is being accomplished. Some say that these projects should be teacher-designed others say they should be student-designed. A high school student once stated that " a project over the summer sounds boring ". Others must think how can one make a ...
Lead
Adequate
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Summer projects should be student-designed
Position
Adequate
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it makes each student want to be creative,
Claim
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enthusiastic,
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have better learning opportunities.
Claim
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Critics say that summer projects should be teacher designed because it keeps the student following a stricted guideline.
Counterclaim
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Although following a specific guild line ensures the student will complete the required task thoroughly, it forbids the act of joy. Students are already in school for ten months of the year following a stricted guideline in how to complete a certain assignment, if schools assign a teacher-designed project over the summ...
Rebuttal
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A student would show creativity by choosing the colors they like or making it into something that shows significance to them. This would give the project more depth and meaning rather than a simple teacher-designed assignment. Creativity is important in a student's life because it helps speak what is on their mind and ...
Evidence
Effective
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On a usual school assignment students wait till the last minute and stress about what to and how to do it, with being able to design your project there would be less procrastination and more completion. With student-design projects each student has more options in what they can create, making them look forward to compl...
Evidence
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If students have the ability to design their own project they would be choosing what they have to do the research on. This would increase learning because it would interest an individual student and make them want to gain more knowledge about a specific topic. Another way learning opportunities are increased because af...
Evidence
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summer projects should be student-designed because it promotes creativity, makes it enthusiastic, and increases knowledge. Completing a creative, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable project over the summer sounds far more entertaining than a teacher-designed project. With creativity you can make the project interesting, wi...
Concluding Statement
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Plan:A photo from 1998,is a pciture of a mask. So why they "MGS" claims is not a face? We don't,be we do know is that a high-resolution images and 3D altimetry takes picture from outer space. It says that "NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet,snapping photo possible landing sites for it's sister ship".
Lead
Ineffective
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their is a possibitiy that maybe there is an "Anicent civilization" that lived on Mars that we don't know about.
Position
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"A few days later NASA unveilied the images for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth
Evidence
Ineffective
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So basically it tell the readers or the scientist thatat some point of time their was humans on "Planet Mars",and really they're trying to get them to realized just because its a"huge rock formation" what if they'rereally humans skulls under all of the rocks?
Evidence
Ineffective
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The Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars evidence that NASA would rather hide,say conspriacy theorists.
Claim
Adequate
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This shows that NASA was trying to keep it a sercet that theirs are head with a mouth,eyes,noes,and ears on Mars and they wasn't trying to put in no type of effort to get deeper in the situation or not even assummed is not normal for a planet that has nobody lived on and has a unusal head that just poped up out of nowh...
Evidence
Adequate
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The author of this work is in favor of taking on the great challenge of landing a "rover" on Venus for research and exploration. Venus has many extreme conditions that the earth does not have to endure.
Lead
Effective
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The author presented many "solutions" to these problems. Although plausible, the creations would be impractical and would not produce ensured results. The author's support for the idea of exploring Venus is mediocre at best.
Position
Effective
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Being the second-closest planet to the sun provides for some nearly impossible conditions for human exploration.
Claim
Effective
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With Sulfuric Acid in Venus' atmosphere, and surface temperatures being over 425 degrees Celcius (about 700 K or 800 F) , the likelyhood of humans on Venus is nearly nonexistent to begin with. To combat the hot temperatures and the acidic atmosphere, NASA proposed the idea of a "blimp" that floats above the planet's sh...
Evidence
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An additional idea that was brought up by the author was "Silicon electronics."
Claim
Adequate
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Siliscon electronics would be resistent to the harsh conditions on the planet-- for a while. The systems would run for about a month before total failure. these silicon systems are very expensive to bein with and are still in the development phase here on earth. Creating enough silicon circuits to power a rover or vehi...
Evidence
Effective
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Lastly, a "cave-man" idea of mechanical computers came into play.
Claim
Adequate
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These basic forms of work require no fragile electronics at all. Using gears, levers, pulleys, and ramrods, corporations have been able to create many devices. When made out of an acid-resistent substance that can withstand high pressure, a mechanical machine may work. The only problem with a mechanical machine is that...
Evidence
Effective
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The author of this article is trying to push a principle that is not fully developed yet.
Claim
Effective
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The reasons that were provided may work after many years of design and development, but right now, none are practical. A combination of the three presented ideas may actually work the best. Use a blimp to float above the planet, tie a cable to the blimp that connects is with machanical machinery, and use silicon electr...
Evidence
Effective
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Overall, the author's arguments do not satisfy the overall risk and reward stakes. After more time passes, maybe he will write another article depicting what will work for sure. The support was not presented in a way that was convincing enough to dive right in to this new frontier of space.
Concluding Statement
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Good Afternoon, You may know me as Dr. Ema R. I'm Head Scientist down at NASA. So today I'm going to tell you about the 'Face on Mars' some people think its just a funky looking rock. Well my friends they are wrong. Now your going to move on to my studying and research I have done to find out what it is and I'm pretty ...
Lead
Adequate
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The 'Face on Mars' was found by us NASA, in 1976. It got very popular over the years then.
Claim
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By popular I mean appearing in a Hollywood film, books, magazines, radio, and even talk shows. Now, I know what your thinking. What was so popular about a landform on a planet other than ours? Well first, its not a landform, and second lets be completly honest here, if you were looking through a telescope and saw a fac...
Evidence
Adequate
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The work I did on Mars made me think that we aren't the only planet with life
Claim
Ineffective
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This 'Face' isn't a landform, its a lifeform.
Position
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thats what all the faces on Mars, if there is life, look like
Claim
Ineffective
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When life on Mars dies they will bury them like we do. Also, the way this 'Face' appeared there when it was buried. It got buried there forever ago and now the skull is popping up.
Evidence
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The leaders would put it into motion and try to find more life forms or signs of life
Claim
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Maybe these forms there, don't need to live with water and oxygen like we do they may just have to live off of sunlight or dirt maybe something crazy like that. NASA will one day find more evidence of lights on other planets.
Evidence
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Studying Venus can be a good thing to do, you will learn more about the planet and why it is our sister planet to us
Claim
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You will have a lot of information and reasonings on why it's that planet or why is it close to the sun. The text gives you a lot of information about venus and why it is called that. As it states "long ago when venus was covered with nothing but the ocean", they could of had human life on that planet. You can study ve...
Evidence
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I suggest that it is a good idea to study venus, you might have a chance to visit the planet venus.
Position
Ineffective
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Summer break is oftentimes associated with the stagnation of learning, and the loss of accumulated learning from the previous school year. To counteract this, some schools have implemented a system of summer projects to ensure that learning never stops, even during a break.
Lead
Adequate
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in lieu of traditional teacher-designed projects, students should be able to dictate, for themselves, what summer project they wish to accomplish. 
Position
Effective
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While some may argue that student-designed projects encourage lazy and uninspired design, by designing projects themselves,
Counterclaim
Effective
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students are more likely to have the time and motivation to complete them than if a teacher had designed them.
Rebuttal
Adequate
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By having students design their own projects, it increases the likelihood that they have some interest in the completion of said project.
Claim
Effective
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This is because by allowing them to dictate what their project is about, it ensures that the student will select a topic that is interesting to them. This concept of self-selection is already applied to schooling today. For example, the ubiquitous science fair. Within a science fair project, students select a topic and...
Evidence
Effective
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laziness is not the sole reason a student may not complete a summer project. It is possible that they, or their family, have plans that conflict with the completion of an assigned project. For example, if a student were traveling to a location where they did not have access to resources or materials to complete a proje...
Evidence
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