evaluating evidence

ATI TEAS
Reading: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Multiple choice
Difficulty 3 of 5

Question

Passage

Passage A: A fictional apartment cooperative is discussing sleep environments. An educational note suggests a quiet, cool, dark bedroom as one helpful sleep habit. The note does not report conditions in the cooperative's apartments or claim that a particular curtain will solve every resident's sleep difficulties. Members want to assess a proposed curtain lending program at their own building.

Passage B: One member says that a curtain in her room looks attractive. Another suggests inviting participating adults to record their perceived room brightness and sleep experience before borrowing a curtain and after using it. She cautions that other changes might occur at the same time, so the records alone would not establish that the curtain caused any sleep change. The group has not yet collected the records.

Which evidence would most directly help assess the program in this building?

The curtain maker’s choice of fabric name.✗ Incorrect

A fabric name does not describe residents’ experience.
Residents’ records of room brightness and sleep experience before and after using the curtains.✓ Correct

The proposed records address the local program before and after use, though they cannot alone prove causation.
A member’s statement that the curtain looks attractive.✗ Incorrect

Appearance alone does not describe brightness or sleep changes.
The age of the cooperative’s front door.✗ Incorrect

The front door’s age does not address the proposed program.

Answer

B. Residents’ records of room brightness and sleep experience before and after using the curtains.

Rationale

The proposed records address the local program before and after use, though they cannot alone prove causation. The question asks what follows from the passages, so claims that go beyond the information provided are unsupported.

RememberMatch each conclusion to the information the passages actually provide.

Sources

Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency Healthy Sleep Habits National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH) · License: US government work (public domain) · Retrieved November 2, 2026 · Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency Healthy Sleep Habits

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