{"id":135,"date":"2011-06-20T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2011-12-07T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T00:41:19","slug":"page62-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/?page_id=135","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Element: Clearly targets an idea of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To illustrate this element, consider the following example:<\/p>\n<p>An teacher wants to elicit student ideas about seed\u00a0structure and is deciding between the following prompts:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dWhat can you tell me about seeds?\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dYou know that our bodies have different kinds of parts. Do you think seeds have different parts? If so, what kinds of parts do you think they have?\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first prompt was actually used\u00a0with students\u00a0and yielded the following responses:<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey have food for the newborn plant.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey\u2019re inside the fruit.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s an ovary.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIf you graft you get a better fruit.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Because the prompt lacked specificity, student responses did not focus on seed structure.\u00a0 The responses were predictably scattered and not closely related to the targeted idea that seeds are made up of distinct structures.<\/p>\n<p>The second prompt focuses students on structures.\u00a0 In addition, this prompt can stimulate existing cognitive structures based on an analogy with the more familiar internal structures of the human body.\u00a0 This may lead to responses referencing an embryo, food for a new plant, a protective outer covering, or the beginnings of root and shoot structures.\u00a0 These responses more effectively inform the teacher about existing student ideas that might be addressed in instruction.<span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Although this element is clearly relevant to open-ended questions (as exemplified here), it also bears consideration when constructing prompts with other elicitation strategies as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To illustrate this element, consider the following example: An teacher wants to elicit student ideas about seed\u00a0structure and is deciding between the following prompts: \u201dWhat can you tell me about seeds?\u201c \u201dYou know that our bodies have different kinds of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":98,"menu_order":43500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/376"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizon-research.com\/atlast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}