Audit an answer before it reaches a student or a family
Lesson 2 of 5 · The teacher's week
1 · Learn the move · Fact-check list
In classroom work an invented answer is rarely wild. It is a standard quoted with one clause changed, a reading level stated as a number no instrument produced, a date for a state test that moved last year, a 'research shows' with no study behind it, a worksheet with one problem whose answer key is wrong. Each one is plausible, and each one goes to a child or a family under your name. The audit is a list: every claim in the answer, one per line, with where you would check it and whether you have. A standard is checked against the standards document, open. A test date is checked against the district calendar, open. A fact in a worksheet is checked by working the problem. 'Research shows' is checked by finding the research, and if you cannot, the sentence comes out. The decision to send stays yours, and it is made with the list in front of you, not the answer.
Here is a draft answer I got from an AI tool: [paste]. Pull out every claim in it, one per line: every standard quoted or paraphrased, every number, every date, every 'research shows', every worked answer, every statement about what a law or a policy requires. Beside each, write where I would check it (the standards document, the district calendar, the policy, by working the problem, the study itself) and the one action that would check it. Do not tell me which claims are true; you cannot know. Mark every line UNCHECKED until I change it.
What invented means on this door
Invented, in a classroom, means a standard quoted with one clause changed, a reading level stated as a number no instrument produced, a test date from last year, a 'research shows' with no study behind it, or a worksheet with one answer wrong in the key. Each one reads as plausible, and each one goes to a child or a family under your name. The lessons teach the audit; the audit is a list, and every line stays UNCHECKED until you open the source.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A fourth-grade teacher at Larkspur Elementary asks a chatbot for a parent-night handout on this year's state testing. It comes back clean: dates, the standards 'assessed', a reading-level target, and a line that 'research shows' thirty minutes of nightly reading closes the gap. The audit list has eleven claims. The dates are last year's. The reading-level target is a number no instrument in the district produces. The 'research shows' line has no study behind it she can find. The standards are right. Four of eleven come out. The handout goes home under her name after that, not before.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
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