The East Vale reading room, people, poll, visits and proposals are fictional. This studio asks how a public claim and a numerical result can be used responsibly. It sits beside your English and General Mathematics lessons. It is not a separate QCAA subject or a formal assessment. Use the English texts and maths cards; your teacher will hold back fresh check materials until the final day.
Card S1 — Source label
| Item | What it actually gives | What it cannot prove |
|---|---|---|
| Text A's imagined apprentice | A speaker's example of a possible user | How many apprentices would attend |
| Text B's last-bus claim | A claim made by an invented speaker within the fiction | A real bus timetable |
| Card A's 12 morning quiet visits | A count in a made-up table | A causal effect of morning hours |
| Card B's six hour/visit pairs | Six invented paired observations | Demand, access or causes in a real community |
Your task: write a public sentence using one item with its source label still attached. Name the next evidence a real board would need.
Card S2 — Two proposed pilots
Option P: Two weekday evenings, staffed and paid, with transport checked before dates are set. Option Q: One Saturday afternoon, staffed and paid, with quiet and group spaces. These are proposals; no actual costs, transport availability or user preferences have been measured.
Compare the options without declaring a winner. Ask whose access each option might improve, whose access remains uncertain, and what would make a fair comparison.
Card S3 — An ethical invitation draft
“Tell us your ideal hours. Our quick poll proves everyone wants us open until eight.”
Rewrite the second sentence so it says what the invented poll in English Text C actually asked, or remove the claim. Include a paper/offline response route. Do not ask respondents to disclose private health, income or immigration details.
Card S4 — Claim ladder
- Direct observation: “In Card A, 12 morning visits used a quiet table.”
- Computed comparison: “In Card A, 60% of morning visits and 30% of afternoon visits used quiet tables.”
- Hypothesis: “Different users might attend at different hours.”
- Unsupported leap: “Morning hours make people choose quiet tables.”
Put a source or proposed test beside each rung. Reword rung 4 as a question that a study could examine.
Card S5 — Public report frame
“The fictional trial recorded . In these records, . The letters raise . We cannot conclude ___ from these records. Before changing hours, the board should check ___ and invite comment through .”
You may use another structure. A precise statement with a smaller claim is more useful than an impressive statement the evidence cannot carry.
Response routes
You may use a written note, annotated text/table, a short spoken or AAC explanation, a private recording or a tactile diagram with an explanation. The teacher records access support and asks the same evidence question. You may opt out of personal or public disclosure. The original texts can be read aloud; the written versions are the transcripts. No separate recording or verified translation is provided.
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