discussion-insights-for-education

Discussion Insights for Education

Overview

Aggregates discussion and formative-check evidence into group-level patterns: recurring misconceptions, unanswered questions, and shifts between cycles. It preserves counterevidence and tracks whether the teaching response chosen last cycle actually moved the pattern.

When to Use

• The user wants themes and misconceptions across a discussion, exit ticket, or question set
• The user asks whether a teaching change from a prior cycle had an effect
• The user wants to compare patterns between two class sessions or cycles

When NOT to Use

• Grading, scoring, or assessing any individual learner
• Ranking or comparing students in any way
• One-off summarization of a single meeting transcript — use meeting-intel

Shared Skill Contract

This skill follows the institution's shared contract for every run:

1. Intent check — confirm outcome, audience, timeframe, and format before working.
2. Source plan — show the sources selected, their date ranges, access gaps, and freshness.
3. Clarification gate — ask only for missing information that would change the result.
4. Staged execution — keep discovery, synthesis, creation, review, and finalization separate.
5. Reviewable output — separate facts, interpretation, recommendations, assumptions, and open questions.
6. Human approval — require confirmation before sending, publishing, or changing any record.
7. Reusable state — carry accepted decisions forward without silently reusing stale assumptions.
8. Quality check — run the checks below before presenting final output.
9. Telemetry — log workflow signals only; never sensitive content.
10. Failure behavior — explain missing access, unsupported sources, uncertainty, and partial completion.

Core Instructions

Step 1: Set the scope

Confirm the class or cohort, the cycle boundaries, and the sources (notes, transcripts, exit-check files). Never request or accept identifiable student records.