{
  "title": "Statistics visual explanation survey",
  "questions": [
    "What did the chart show?",
    "Which axis label was confusing?",
    "What example would help?"
  ],
  "question_notes": [
    "Ask learners to describe the relationship shown in their own words before asking whether they liked the chart. This reveals a difference between reading the labels and understanding the comparison.",
    "Keep the exact axis label, unit or scale feature that the learner could not interpret. A missing unit, truncated scale and unfamiliar category require different explanatory changes.",
    "Ask which concrete comparison would make the interpretation easier. Use the request to choose a practice example rather than assuming that more decoration or another chart will improve understanding."
  ],
  "answer_guidance": [
    {
      "question": 1,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Ask learners to describe the relationship shown in their own words before asking whether they liked the chart. This reveals a difference between reading the labels and understanding the comparison.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 2,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Keep the exact axis label, unit or scale feature that the learner could not interpret. A missing unit, truncated scale and unfamiliar category require different explanatory changes.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 3,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Ask which concrete comparison would make the interpretation easier. Use the request to choose a practice example rather than assuming that more decoration or another chart will improve understanding.",
      "optional": true
    }
  ],
  "respondent_instruction": "If nothing was unclear or difficult, say so. Skip questions about steps you did not experience; use not applicable where appropriate.",
  "field_protocol": {
    "send_when": "Show an adult learner one labelled synthetic chart immediately after the associated explanation and before the debrief reveals its intended reading.",
    "decision_owner": "The lesson author or instructor responsible for the chart explanation.",
    "followup": "Show the chart with explicit units and ask learners to explain one comparison using those units. Record whether they can identify the quantity, scale and comparison without a hint; use the result to refine the lesson, not to claim a validated learning score.",
    "response_handling": "Keep chart interpretation separate from individual grading. Store de-identified explanations and whether the learner had seen the original lesson."
  },
  "editorial_sections": [
    {
      "id": "guide-response-examples",
      "kind": "response-examples",
      "heading": "Check what a chart permits the reader to conclude",
      "intro": "Illustrative statements separate reading a display from inferring an unsupported comparison.",
      "rows": [
        [
          "“Thirty responses selected option A.”",
          "A count, when the chart and legend establish that unit.",
          "A count alone does not establish the proportion without the denominator."
        ],
        [
          "“The share rose from one period to another.”",
          "A comparison only when period, denominator and definition remain comparable.",
          "Different samples or labels may explain the apparent movement."
        ],
        [
          "“The change caused the improvement.”",
          "A hypothesis requiring evidence beyond the displayed trend.",
          "A before-and-after chart alone does not establish causation."
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "note": "Examples to adapt. Not a validated instrument; manual editorial data, not a product import payload."
}