After the students completed the exam, they were given a copy that included the correct answers and a short explanation for the correct answer.
If you can make out the question, submitting your answer launches another browser window that states "That's Correct" or "That's Incorrect," without further explanation for why the answer is right or wrong.
Some possible reasons for this behavior include: 1) students may initially vote for the correct answer without feeling confident in their explanation for that answer, or 2) students may vote for the correct answer but may have the wrong reasoning to support this answer.
These two dimensions were Bloom level of the question (matched 80% of the activities) and whether or not an instructor provided an explanation for the correct answer (70% of the activities).
The great thing about these books is the explanation for the correct answer.
Dissociations between students' success in selecting a scientifically accurate answer and an independent analysis of their ability to provide a scientific explanation for that answer choice have been previously documented (Rabinowitz and Mohammadreza, 1989; Anbar, 1991; Bridgeman and Morgan, 1996).
If you don't get what you want, is there a reasonable explanation for that answer; often there is.
The key is to think of explanations as question-answer episodes involving four elements: the explanation-seeking question about P, P?, the cognitive state C of the questioner/agent for whom P calls for explanation, the answer A, and the cognitive state C+A in which the need for explanation of P has disappeared.
It is tempting to search for some macroeconomic explanation but the answer may lie in another "macro" - the big hedge funds.We are in a world where there is very little yield on offer, and thus a limited amount of "carry" to exploit (the gap between high and low-yielding currencies or bonds).
For each question, they were also asked to provide a written explanation for their answer.
