When "The Research" is Me: Women's Experiences as Contingent Instructors in the Contemporary Academy
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper is a small auto/biographical slice from a long-term qualitative project on the experiences of female adjunct instructors and graduate teaching assistants in the contemporary academy. The author, a contingent faculty member, juxtaposes contextual information about female contingent instructors with her own experiences and reflections on the teaching/research process, as well as personal narratives from women who have taught in varied college and University settings in a mid west state, to contribute to the continued expansion of feminist work on narrative forms. These women, with varying degrees of elation and despair, have helped to constitute the category of A¢â¬Acontingent workerA¢â¬Â imperative to the machinations of the contemporary University.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it