Application

Students gain the application skills needed to solve problems and utilize information. Lessons provide skills for using information in new contexts, solving problems, identifying a principle or generalization, and applying principles and abstract ideas to problems and situations. Application skills allow students to truly use their knowledge.

Analysis

Students will need to demonstrate the ability to analyze information and pull out what is critical to answer questions on high school equivalency tests. Learners also examine points of view of individual writers and among varying writers. By examining an individual writer's point of view, or by contrasting opinions of two different authors, students learn strategies for drawing conclusions, identifying patterns, and understanding facts and opinions. Being able to recognize unstated meanings, fallacies, and evidence, the student will use analytical skills to validate ideas.

Evaluating and Extending Meaning

Lessons help students compare ideas, assess the values of evidence and conclusions, make choices based on arguments, understand the role of values in beliefs and choices, and identify logical fallacies. Students learn tools to make good arguments, evaluate others’ arguments, and make strong decisions.

Social Studies Test Familiarity and Practice

Instruction is presented in the same way that students will encounter social studies questions on any high school equivalency test. In working through social studies lessons, students are exposed to the types of social studies questions presented on the GED^® Test, TASC Test™ , or HiSET Exam^®.