HCD.11:4.3 - Observe the attempt without hiding help

Explain the task conditions and permitted means. Observe enough of the attempt to attribute the contribution: relevant source use, choice, adaptation, action, result and any required recognition before a cue. Keep material errors, help, corrections and unfinished work visible.

A product alone is enough only when its origin and means of production cannot change the intended inference. Otherwise, use the least intrusive discriminating observation: a short explanation of one consequential choice, a source trace, a direct observation or a fresh task. Do not add an oral examination by default.

Keep the first attempt separate from correction after feedback. A teacher’s question about the missing configuration can improve the answer; it also removes independent detection from that later observation. Record what the cue supplied rather than merely marking the answer “corrected.”