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Record W1197828183

Incorporating Guided-Inquiry Learning into the Undergraduate Laboratory

2015· article· en· W1197828183 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Barb Morra

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarship@Western (Western University) · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInnovative Teaching Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMathematics educationComputer scienceEngineering ethicsPsychologyEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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Summary: This talk will discuss how guided-inquiry experiments bridge the gap between the classroom and research laboratory through active learning and problem solving. Abstract: In most undergraduate laboratory courses, students perform thoroughly tested experiments with proven results. These exercises do not necessarily represent a research laboratory experience where reaction outcomes are unknown and procedures are routinely optimized for higher yield and purity. This talk will focus on the role and impact of guided-inquiry learning in the undergraduate laboratory by highlighting two new experiments in the second year organic chemistry curriculum at the University of Toronto, which effectively bridges the gap between the classroom and research laboratory. These types of experiments are useful teaching tools across all Science disciplines as they give students the opportunity to experience the challenges of conducting scientific research while encouraging active learning through creative problem solving. The process of developing these new laboratory activities and select student experimental results will be briefly discussed. The impact of guided-inquiry experiments towards student learning will also be presented by sharing the data collected from student evaluations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.021
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.042

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.021
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0030.006
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.264
GPT teacher head0.428
Teacher spread0.164 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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