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A company was recently hired to find the best, most effective learning application for college students. The company focused on Virginia Tech University students. The company first asked a sample of students to use three different learning applications: Quizlet, PeerWise, and CourseHero. All of the 68 students in the sample used each of the applications for a minimum of 20 minutes. The winner? PeerWise. PeerWise was selected by 40% of the students sampled. The closest competitor was Quizlet with 32% of the student votes. Apparently, PeerWise has something special that can help college students to be more successful.

Provide your responses in the following format:

Author's Conclusion:

Author’s Reasons:

Critical Thinking Analysis:

Analyze the evidence, and for each piece of evidence, provide:

Your evaluation on the strength of each piece of the evidence. How good was it? (weak, strong?)

Your explanation on why you made this evaluation. Why was it strong or why was it weak (what was wrong or lacking?). Use what you learned regarding research from the textbook to support your responses.

Answer 1

Author's conclusion:

PeerWise has something special that can help college students to be more successful.

Author’s Reasons:

PeerWise was selected by 40% of the students sampled, which was the heighest.

Critical Thinking Analysis:

As the company asked a sample of students to use three different learning applications: Quizlet, PeerWise, and CourseHero. All of the 68 students in the sample used each of the applications for a minimum of 20 minutes

and then from observation, conclusion is drawn.

Analyze the evidence, and for each piece of evidence, provide:

i) identify the point the company is trying to prove

The company is trying to get which is the most effective learning application.And it concluded that PeerWise was most efficient.

ii) identify the specific facts the company gives to support the claim

The facts that supports the above claim is that in the survey of 68 student ,PeerWise was selected by most student.

iii) explain how the evidence is supposed to relate to the claim

The evidence is that 40% student selects Peerwise

32% selects Quizlet

and only 28% selects CourseHero.

The evaluation of evidence is strong as it is a clear support to the conclusion that PeerWise is mostly selected.

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