Logical reasoning PrepTest 126 · Section 1 · Question 11

Incorrect. There's no discussion of providing feedback here, so this scenario doesn't illustrate the same principle that had the best way to provide feedback as a key element.

Incorrect. The stimulus makes clear that the person receiving feedback should be noted as being a factor in improving outcomes, so they would be considered a member of the group in this context.

Incorrect. This answer has someone criticizing themself, not receiving an evaluation. They also are maximizing the impact by imagining that the feedback is going to someone else, not that they're just one aspect of the outcome (i.e., they're just one actor in the play).

Incorrect. This answer is about a person studying a society, not someone who's receiving feedback as a part of solving a problem, so it illustrates a different principle.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Facts

Question Type:
Illustration (Principle)

Stimulus Summary:
Best way to critique teachers to improve them - When providing criticism, note that it's just one of several factors leading to educational outcomes.

Answer Anticipation:
Phew, what a question stem! It tells us that the stimulus is going to present a stimulus that illustrates a principle, which we'll need to figure out, before then using that principle to find an answer that brings up another situation that illustrates it. We should start by identifying the relevant details in the scenario and form a principle, then abstract it to remove the topic of the stimulus, and then find an answer that matches that principle.

Let's start with the scenario in the stimulus. It discusses how to provide feedback to teachers that maximizes educational outcomes. That feedback should be delivered, according to the stimulus, by presenting the teacher's performance as just one factor that makes up educational outcomes. So the principal (pun intended):
In order to maximize educational outcomes when providing teacher feedback, criticism should discuss how the teacher's performance is just one factor in those outcomes.

Generalizing from that by stripping out anything about teachers and education, we get:
In order to maximize outcomes when providing feedback, criticism should focus on how the person whose performance is being analyzed is only one factor in the outcome.

Let's find a situation that matches this.

Answer Explanation:
This situation has feedback being provided to an athlete to maximize the performance of the team. That feedback is noted as working better when the athlete is told that they're just one factor in fixing the team's problems. This answer illustrates the same principle as the stimulus, so it's the correct answer.

Key Takeaway:
We're going to focus this takeaway on answer choice (C). That answer can be particularly tempting because it's easy to see how a play/actor can match up with the principle that focuses on how someone is just a part of the overall outcome. Be careful with these answers—one's that could be right if framed differently than they actually are.