Schools Experiment With AI but Struggle to Measure Its Effect on Students

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Question formats

Fill in the blank (dropdown), Single choice

How to approach this practice

Read the complete sentence and notice the subject, verb form, time reference and word order before answering.

1. Question 1 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   If schools ___ the results with confidence, they may make better decisions.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. were able to evaluate
   2. are able evaluate
   3. would able to evaluate
   4. could to evaluate
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   Blank 1

   were able to evaluate

   The conditional requires the idiomatic phrase “were able to” before the base verb.

2. Question 2 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which sentence correctly uses inversion after a negative adverbial?

   1. Only then schools can assess the technology’s consequences.
   2. Only then can schools assess the technology’s consequences.
   3. Only then schools could assessing the technology’s consequences.
   4. Only then can assess schools the technology’s consequences.
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   Answer

   Only then can schools assess the technology’s consequences.

   After “only then,” subject–auxiliary inversion is required in this formal structure.

3. Question 3 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The tool’s apparent convenience, ___, does not establish improved learning.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. valuable though it may be
   2. though valuable it may
   3. valuable although may it be
   4. though it may valuable be
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   Blank 1

   valuable though it may be

   The concessive participial phrase correctly means “although it may be valuable.”

4. Question 4 · Single choice

   Choose one answer.

   Which sentence correctly uses a restrictive relative clause?

   1. Experiments, that produce reliable evidence, deserve expansion.
   2. Experiments which producing reliable evidence deserve expansion.
   3. Experiments that produce reliable evidence deserve expansion.
   4. Experiments that produces reliable evidence deserves expansion.
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   Answer

   Experiments that produce reliable evidence deserve expansion.

   “That” correctly introduces essential information identifying the experiments under discussion.

5. Question 5 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   By the time the review ends, schools ___ several evaluation methods.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. will have tested
   2. will tested
   3. have will tested
   4. will have testing
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   Blank 1

   will have tested

   The future perfect expresses an action completed before a future reference point.

6. Question 6 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The report recommends ___ schools define success before adopting AI tools.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. that schools define
   2. that schools defines
   3. schools defining that
   4. that schools defined
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   that schools define

   The verb “recommends” takes a that-clause with the mandative subjunctive here.

7. Question 7 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   ___ the technology’s benefits, schools must also examine possible harms.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. Having assessed
   2. Having assessing
   3. Have assessed
   4. To having assessed
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   Blank 1

   Having assessed

   The introductory participial clause correctly shares the subject with the main clause.

What to review next

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