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PART 1: AI WITH YOUR DATA
One prompt for each of the six words
One prompt for each of the six words
AI is good at generating options and bad at knowing your students. Use it to widen the list of things you could try, then choose with what you know. Copy a prompt, fill in the blanks, and paste.
Question Sharpen it
"My question about my grade ___ students
is: ___. Is it sharp enough that I could picture the evidence that answers it? Rewrite it two ways, each one smaller.”
Evidence The gut check
“I plan to give the ___ to grade ___ because I want to know ___ . In 3 bullets, is this a good match, and what should I do differently?”
Notice Only what you see
“Here are de-identified item results: [paste]. List only what you notice. No causes, no recommendations. Start each line with a number from the data.”
Diagnose Read the wrong answers
“Here is an item, its answer choices, and the percent who chose each: [paste]. What would a student have to think to pick each wrong answer? Then give me two rival explanations and how I could rule each one out.”
Respond Smallest First
“My students ___ because ___ . Give me five responses ordered by time cost, from move on to reteach, each with minutes. Include one for students who already have it.”
Check A fresh check
“Write two new multiple choice items on [standard], grade ___. Build one wrong answer in each to catch this mistake: ___. Include the answer key.”
SEE IT IN ACTION
Ms. Alvarez asks AI about Item 2
Ms. Alvarez asks AI about Item 2
She pasted 3/8 + 2/8 with the four choices and the percentages, and used the Diagnose prompt. It named the thinking behind 5/16 and offered a rival: students misread the operation.
She ruled the rival out herself. Item 4 showed the same whole-number thinking with no operation at all. AI widened the list. She made the call.
HOW AI USE RAMPS THIS SEASON
FALL: Use these prompts as written. See what a good prompt produces.
Winter: Adapt them to your own class and question.
Spring: Write your own, and know when not to use one.
PART 2- MAKE INTERIM PRACTICE A GAME
The game is the wrong answers
The game is the wrong answers
Every wrong answer on an interim style question is built to catch a specific mistake. That makes it perfect for a game: students do not just pick an answer, they argue about why someone would pick the others.
Four Corners 10 min- 1 item
Project one item. Each corner is A, B, C or D. Students move, then each corner convinces one person from another corner to switch.Be the Distractor 10 min- 1 item
Show the answer first. Teams get one wrong answer each and must explain the thinking that leads to it, in character: “I picked 5/16 because…”Trap Writers 15 min- 1 item
Students write their own wrong answer built to catch a specific mistake. The class guesses which mistake it catches. Best trap wins.Predict the Room 5 min- 1 item
Before anyone answers, students predict what percent of the class will get it right and the most popular wrong answer. Then reveal.Score the Judges 15 min- 3 responses
Students score three anonymous written responses with the rubric, like judges on a panel. Reveal the real scores. Then they revise the weakest one into a 2.Quiz Show, Paused 15 min- 8 items
Kahoot, Blooket or Gimkit with your own interim style items. After each question, pause on the most chosen wrong answer: who would pick that, and why?No interim blocks for your grade or subject? This is still your page. The six words work on any evidence you collect.
BUILD A GAME SET WITH AI
Eight questions in two minutes
Eight questions in two minutes
PROMPT:
“Write 8 multiple choice questions on [standard] for grade ___, at DOK 2, in the style of a Smarter Balanced interim item. Each wrong answer must catch one specific misconception. Label the misconception for each wrong answer. Put it in a table with columns for question, four answers, correct answer, and time limit, so I can import it into [Kahoot / Blooket / Gimkit /].” Or have AI generate an original game with the interim questions.
Then check every item yourself. Work through each one and confirm the key. AI writes wrong answer keys more often than you would expect.
SEE IT IN ACTION
Four corners with Item 2
Four corners with Item 2
Ms. Alvarez projected 3/8 + 2/8. Eleven students walked to the 5/16 corner. Their argument: “You add the tops, and you add the bottoms.”
The 5/8 corner pulled out fraction strips to convince them. Four switched. Ten minutes later, she heard the misconception in students' own words.
COMMON TRAPS
What trips people up
What trips people up
Real interim items in public games
Project real items in class. For online games, use your own interim style items and keep games private.
Trusting the AI's Answer Key
Work every item yourself before students see it.
Speed over thinking
Points for speed reward guessing. Pause on the wrong answers every round.
Letting AI make the decision
AI does not know your students. Use it for options, then choose.
Tools
Tools
Video: Previewing and Printing Interim Items/Answers
Erin's video on how to print interim questions and answers to use in the classroom.
Maps your lesson to the right interim, then walks you through assigning, results, and reteaching.
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