During a courts-records lab, formative observation shows several clerks share a misconception about ADA holds. The summative is still ahead. What should the instructor do?
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Short Explanation
If half the room has the hold rule backward, that is a gift before the final, not a gotcha to save. Teach it again now. Do not wait to catch them later.
Full Explanation
During a courts-records lab, when formative observation shows several clerks share a misconception about ADA holds and the summative is still ahead, the instructor should reteach the ADA-hold point now so instruction is corrected before the summative. Formative findings exist to repair shared errors while stakes remain formative. Saving the misconception as a surprise trap on the summative fails the teaching purpose of formative assessment and weaponizes a known gap. Ignoring it because reteaching would slow the vendor deck fails responsiveness to evidence. Canceling the rest of the course for an HR policy seminar fails proportionality and abandons remaining courts-records objectives. Exam caveat: fix shared misconceptions before summative scoring. Operational check: stop the lab briefly, reteach ADA holds with a correct example and a non-example, have clerks demonstrate the hold correctly, then proceed and keep the summative aligned to the repaired understanding. ADA holds in courts records protect access obligations; reteaching a shared misconception before the summative prevents the exam from becoming a gotcha and keeps clerks from practicing the wrong hold into the live system.