A High-School Science Teacher, Mr

Multiple Choice

A high-school science teacher, Mr. Reidy, wants to increase his students' skills at coordinating theory with evidence. He wonders if he should provide them with traditional scientific tasks, or allow them to engage in informal reasoning. What should you tell him?

A) Scientific reasoning is influenced by years of schooling that can involve either of the two methods.
B) Neither of the methods has been proven effective for increasing scientific reasoning.
C) Traditional scientific tasks are the only problems that improve scientific reasoning.
D) Informal reasoning tasks are the only problems that improve scientific reasoning.