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GRE Verbal Flashcards: Passage Structure Organization

Study Passage Structure Organization in GRE Verbal with focused flashcards that help you recognize the idea, recall the key rule, and apply it in practice-style prompts.

QUESTION

What is the structural purpose of a rebuttal following a counterargument?

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ANSWER

To weaken the opposing view and reinforce the author's position. Rebuttals counter opposing arguments by highlighting flaws, thereby strengthening the original thesis.

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Passage: In education policy, some advocates of "learning styles" argue that students learn best when instruction matches an individual's preferred modality, such as visual or auditory. The idea is intuitively appealing and seems to promise a personalized route to higher achievement. Schools have therefore invested in surveys and training programs meant to help teachers tailor lessons accordingly. Cognitive psychologists, however, have repeatedly found little evidence for the strong learning-styles hypothesis. While students may have preferences, experiments often fail to show that matching instruction to those preferences improves learning outcomes. Critics also warn that labeling students can narrow expectations, encouraging both students and teachers to treat certain skills as fixed rather than developable. Instead of discarding personalization entirely, some researchers propose focusing on the structure of the material and the demands of the task. Diagrams may be superior for spatial relationships, while verbal explanation may suit abstract argument; effective instruction, on this view, depends less on who the student is than on what is being learned. The goal is to replace a seductive but unsupported framework with one grounded in how cognition interacts with content. Question: The author mentions schools' investments in surveys and training programs primarily to…
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