A virtual building-inspectors class polls on a setback rule. Half the inspectors miss it. How should the instructor use that tool output?
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Short Explanation
A poll that shows half the inspectors missed the setback rule is a flare, not a decoration. Reteach that rule before the next slide. Clicking past wrong answers is how a “check for understanding” becomes a check that nobody understood.
Full Explanation
Virtual polls are formative tools: when results show widespread misses, instructors reteach before moving on. If half the building inspectors miss a setback rule in a virtual class, using that poll evidence to reteach the rule is the correct response. Tool output that reveals misunderstanding creates an instructional obligation, not a reason to hide results for pace.
Hiding the results and continuing so missed items do not slow slides fails by concept: ignoring diagnostic evidence abandons formative use of the poll. Congratulating only those who answered correctly and skipping reteach fails as favoritism and leaves half the cohort wrong on a field rule. Treating the poll as a graded final and ending the session fails by misusing a check-for-understanding tool as high-stakes termination.
Exam caveat: CTT+ assessment-tool items reward reteach based on poll evidence before advancing.
Operational check: display anonymized results; reteach the missed setback rule with one worked example; re-poll or spot-check; advance only when most inspectors show the corrected understanding. In civic public-training settings, that judgment protects both learner dignity and the municipality’s duty to leave staff actually able to perform the job after class—not merely to finish slides or keep a schedule looking tidy.