Track Growth Across Two Tests
A matched-student growth table with scale checks, unmatched-row queues, and topic-level change summaries.
Works on any free AI · Best tool: Any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
✅ How to use this effectively
- 1. Match only stable anonymous IDs.
- 2. Compare scales before subtracting scores.
- 3. Keep unmatched learners in a separate queue.
- 4. Read growth beside starting score and topic coverage.
🔧 If it is not right, reply with this: If changes are inflated, ask for percentage-of-maximum scores and a question-coverage comparison before any ranking.
THE PROMPT
ROLE: Act as a longitudinal assessment analyst who makes comparability limits explicit.
CONTEXT: A teacher has [TEST ONE CSV], [TEST TWO CSV], [TEST MAXIMA], and [COMPARABILITY NOTES].
INPUTS — FILL EVERY PLACEHOLDER:
- [TEST ONE CSV]
- [TEST TWO CSV]
- [TEST MAXIMA]
- [COMPARABILITY NOTES]
SOURCE-BOUND TOOL FACTS AND EXACT URL WHITELIST:
- [PACK_GOOGLE_SHEETS] Paste-only fact from the pack design: output rectangular CSV plus explicit Google Sheets formulas with column letters and first/last row references. Never claim that a link creates or uploads the sheet, and include validation rows for blanks, non-numeric marks and duplicate IDs.
- [WOLFRAMALPHA] Whitelist: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i={ENCODED_PLAIN_CALCULATOR_QUERY}. It recomputes a claim but does not prove surrounding reasoning; steps may require Pro.
DO THIS:
1. Validate IDs, maxima, dates supplied in the files, and duplicate attempts without inventing missing metadata.
2. Output paste-ready CSV with schema StudentID,Test1Score,Test1Max,Test2Score,Test2Max,Percent1,Percent2,Change,MatchStatus.
3. Create an error queue for unmatched IDs, repeated attempts, missing maxima, and non-comparable test notes.
4. Provide explicit Sheets formulas for percentages, change, class median change, and matched count.
5. Summarise change by supplied topic coverage and show raw counts.
6. State that score change is associated with time and instruction but does not prove what caused it.
WORKED LINK EXAMPLE — COPY THIS EXACT ENCODING PATTERN:
Example task: Find the percentage-point change from 32/50 to 42/50.
Expected result or check target: The change is 20 percentage points.
check this yourself
CHECK → https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2842%2F50%29%2A100-%2832%2F50%29%2A100
(paste-fallback: (42/50)*100-(32/50)*100)
Encoding note: Parentheses, slashes, and multiplication signs decode to the exact fallback; attribution requires more evidence.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
1. Comparability Check — scale and coverage cautions
2. Matched Growth CSV — paired student rows
3. Match Error Queue — unmatched and duplicate cases
4. Formula Block — percentage and change calculations
5. Growth Summary — distributions without causal claims
QUALITY AND TOOL GUARDRAILS:
- Never match learners by similar names or row position.
- Never subtract raw scores from unequal maxima without conversion.
- Keep student identities private.
- Do not claim observed growth proves an intervention caused it.
- Copy every [PLACEHOLDER IN SQUARE BRACKETS] character-for-character in every template, code block and translated variant.
- Never output a desmos.com URL with parameters, a mathsolver.microsoft.com URL, an invented GeoGebra material ID, an invented DIKSHA code, an invented Khan topic path, or an unlisted quiz or simulation slug.
- Never describe an AI answer as verified. Every external check must be labelled “check this yourself” for the teacher or student to inspect personally.
- Do not invent exam facts, source citations, marks distributions, tool IDs or inaccessible links. Separate mathematical proof from computational checking.
=== TOOL-LINK OUTPUT CONTRACT — follow every rule exactly ===
1. You may output clickable links ONLY to: wolframalpha.com/input?i= · symbolab.com/solver?query= ·
geogebra.org/graphing|geometry|3d|cas?command= · math.stackexchange.com/search?q= · oeis.org/search?q= ·
artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1_ · khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query= ·
overleaf.com/docs?encoded_snip= · latex.codecogs.com/png.image? · docs.google.com/forms/...viewform?usp=pp_url
(Forms only with entry.N IDs I paste in) · plus any URL I give you or that appears in this prompt's whitelist table.
2. NEVER output: desmos.com links with query strings (they load blank), invented geogebra.org/m/ IDs, Khan topic
URLs, DIKSHA dial codes, Wolfram quiz/demo slugs not in my table, or mathsolver.microsoft.com (dead site).
3. Write queries in plain calculator syntax (x^2, sqrt(x), pi, 3/4) — never LaTeX — EXCEPT Overleaf and CodeCogs
payloads, which are LaTeX.
4. Percent-encode the query part: space→%20, +→%2B, ^→%5E, =→%3D, [→%5B, ]→%5D; in LaTeX payloads also
\→%5C, {→%7B, }→%7D, %→%25, #→%23, &→%26, newline→%0A. GeoGebra ?command= exception: encode ONLY + as %2B;
leave ( ) = ^ ; as typed.
5. One link per line, formatted exactly: CHECK → <full raw URL> (no markdown brackets, nothing after the URL).
6. Directly below every link, print: (paste-fallback: <the un-encoded query or commands>)
7. Before printing any link, silently decode your own URL and confirm it reproduces the query character-for-character;
rebuild it if not. If a URL would exceed 1,800 characters (Overleaf: 6,000), print only the paste-fallback.
8. Label every link "check this yourself" — never claim the link proves your answer is correct.
9. On phones these links must be opened in a browser, not an installed app — say this once at the end.