The biology instructor describes these processes as "thinking like a biologist" which includes defending answer choices and prompting students to be reflective.
Group interviews revealed that students perceive the most common answer to be the most correct, and students are less willing to defend an answer if it is not the most common one.
You have the right to defend and answer.
Be prepared to defend your answer using the data provided.
So at a time when actual security threats, depending upon the day, could be viewed as diminishing, the to easy-to-ask political question with the hard-to-defend answer is, 'what is the return on investment to the American taxpayer for continuing to fund America's role as the global cop?'.
"The students have to explain and defend their answers because they could have found the right answer but for the wrong reasons".
Westport has also scaled back exercises like long formal proofs in geometry, revising lessons and homework assignments to teach students to defend their answers to math problems as a matter of routine rather than repeatedly writing them out.
(In the skeptical tradition, as articulated for example by Sextus Empiricus (see section 4.4 ., "dogmatists" are philosophers who put forward, and defend, positive answers to philosophical questions about reality, knowledge, ethical values, etc.
Write a blog post defending your answer with historical facts.
The other thing is that Mr. Gingrich defended his answer pretty well during the debate, managing to place it within the tradition of Ronald Reagan conservatism.
One trouble with defending the answer of 1/3 in this way is that what a bookie must know to assure himself a profit does not characterize what is essential to a proper Dutch Book.
