ABC Response

Guide

 

An ABC Response is the most simple for m of response, involving A. answering the question, B. backing it up with evidence, and C. connecting the evidence to the answer and commenting on its relevance and importance. 

 

Rationale:  The manipulation of information increases the probability for long term retention.  The ABC approach engrains a simple but comprehensive strategy for the short response. 

 

Instructions:  Identify questions that deserve a robust response. 

 

General Guidelines

 

·         Directly respond to question or prompt

·         Stay relevant

·         Use evidence, quote primary sources

·         Relate the evidence and the response

·         Demonstrate the relevance or importance

 

ABC Response Rubric

#

possible points

 

expectations

Op1

Op2

Op3

Self

points earned

1.

5

Clarity

Directly responds to prompt

 

 

 

 

 

Relates evidence to response

Underlines appropriate terms

Good sentence structure

2.

3

Organization

ABC sequence

 

 

 

 

 

3.

2

Efficiency

Concise word choices

 

 

 

 

 

Relevance of all text

4.

5

Effectiveness

Uses appropriate terms and names

 

 

 

 

 

Uses appropriate statistics

5.

N/A

Thoroughness

Responds to a diversity of questions

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

 

total

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABC Response Example

 

1.        Which labor issues did reformers hope to remedy through legislation?

 

A)   Reformers hoped to remedy the working conditions of children and women, limit work hours, and increase wages through the passing of labor laws.  B) Reformers believed that since “capital has neither morals nor ideals,” citizens and the government must work for justice (Boyer & Stuckey pg. 281).  For example, Florence Kelley organized the National Child Labor Committee; in 1904, she helped lobby the Oregon legislature to pass a law limiting the work hours for female laundry workers.  Due to the low wages in 1910, one third lived of employed workers lived in poverty.  In 1912 Massachusetts passed the nations first minimum-wage law; others states gradually followed suit.  Congress passed a national minimum-wage law in 1938.  C) All of the legislation working towards fair treatment, fair wages, and fair hours were made in response to the tireless work of the progressive reformers.    

 

ABC Response Student Example