Mr Rangel Asks His Students to Write an Essay Describing

Multiple Choice

Mr. Rangel asks his students to write an essay describing how they would deal with the problem of the diminishing areas in which gorillas can successfully live in the wild. Three of the following factors should influence his students' ability to describe possible solutions to the problem. Which factor will not influence students' ability to do well-either for the better or for the worse-on the essay?

A) Students' anxiety about how well they do on the essay
B) How much students know about the countries in which gorillas reside
C) How carefully students internally monitor their ways of thinking about the problem
D) The number of specific algorithms students have learned for solving problems in other disciplines (e.g., physics, mathematics)