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Practice architecture·Medium cognitive demand·20–40 minutes

Error Auction

Allocate confidence to competing solutions, then diagnose and price their errors.

Knowledge
Procedural · Metacognitive
Sequence
Deliberate Practice · Retrieval And Consolidation
Interaction
Medium

Allocate confidence to competing solutions, then diagnose and price their errors. Error Auction is selected when its reasoning mechanism matches an accepted learning requirement and produces evidence a teacher can inspect.

01How the architecture unfolds

  1. Define the learning target and evidence.
  2. Run the Error Auction routine with one bounded case.
  3. Capture evidence and identify the next teaching move.

02The work on each side

Teacher moves

  • State the reasoning purpose
  • Monitor one diagnostic feature
  • Respond to the evidence

Student moves

  • Retrieve
  • Apply
  • Explain

03What would count as learning?

  • Students produce an observable response linked to the target

04Across the curriculum

History

Evidence and judgment

Use Error Auction to make a historical reasoning move visible.

Science

Explanation and application

Use Error Auction to expose how students select and apply a scientific model.