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  2. Americans struggle to tell the difference between fact and ...

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    Story at a glance Knowing the difference between fact and opinion seems simple, but respondents in a survey published earlier this month were largely unable to correctly identify either. Two ...

  3. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The overall grade for the class is then typically weighted so that the final grade represents a stated proportion of different types of work. For example, daily homework may be counted as 50% of the final grade, chapter quizzes may count for 20%, the comprehensive final exam may count for 20%, [1] and a major project may count for the remaining ...

  4. Holistic grading - Wikipedia

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    Holistic grading or holistic scoring, in standards-based education, is an approach to scoring essays using a simple grading structure that bases a grade on a paper's overall quality. [1] This type of grading, which is also described as nonreductionist grading, [ 2 ] contrasts with analytic grading, [ 3 ] which takes more factors into account ...

  5. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    Distinguishing between fact and opinion Finding the main idea, important facts, and supporting details. There are many reading strategies to use in improving reading comprehension and inferences, these include improving one's vocabulary, critical text analysis ( intertextuality , actual events vs. narration of events, etc.), and practising deep ...

  6. Wikipedia:Facts precede opinions - Wikipedia

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    Facts Precede Opinions states that content accepted by Wikipedians to be factual takes precedence over content that is contended to be opinionated. This is a complement to NPOV . When there are conflicting viewpoints among editors there are two options on how to proceed:

  7. Fact–value distinction - Wikipedia

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    This rendered all facts about human action examinable under a normative framework defined by cardinal virtues and capital vices. "Fact" in this sense was not value-free, and the fact-value distinction was an alien concept. The decline of Aristotelianism in the 16th century set the framework in which those theories of knowledge could be revised. [6]

  8. United States Academic Decathlon - Wikipedia

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    Students were to learn facts such as the length of the scroll, whom Nany was a singer for, and whom her coffin was a sculpture of. [50] Like an athletic decathlon, the Academic Decathlon has ten events: art, economics, essay, interview, language and literature, math, music, science, social science, and speech. [51]

  9. 10 Retro Video Game Consoles That Are Surprisingly Valuable Today

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    Commissioned as a publicity stunt by THQ (a video game publisher that has since gone out of business) for Queen Elizabeth II, this gold-plated Wii stands out as a literal gem in gaming history.