Geoscientists Canada Facilitates New Framework for Assessment Processes in the Licensing of Professional Geoscientists in Canada
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Abstract
Recent modifications to Chapter 7 of Canada’s Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) – the Labour Mobility chapter - and the introduction of new provincial legislation in some jurisdictions, concerning fair access to the regulated professions, have necessitated changes to the way credentials of individuals seeking licensure as professional geoscientists are assessed. In particular, Chapter 7 of the AIT now provides that any licensed (registered) professional in any one of Canada’s provinces or territories, be eligible for registration in another without reassessment, retraining or retesting. Fundamentally this amounts to legislated mutual recognition between all regulatory authorities across Canada, for each profession. Some regulated professions in Canada have met this change by centralizing much of their credentials-assessment activity, by setting up and using a national admissions administration agency. In some cases, this has resulted in reduced autonomy and flexibility for provincial authorities. The authorities for geoscience in Canada (which in many provinces are the same organizations that regulate engineering) have met the need for harmonization via a different mechanism. The Framework for assessment processes in the licensing of Professional Geoscientists in Canada/Cadre pour l’evaluation menant a l’attribution du permis d’exercice aux geoscientifiques en sol canadien developed by Geoscientists Canada with and for its constituent associations, is designed to achieve consistency in admissions decisions across Canada without compromising standards or impinging on the independence of individual authorities. This paper outlines the rationale for this approach and the development process that was followed; it also summarizes the resulting Framework. SOMMAIRE Les recentes modifications apportees au chapitre 7 de l'Accord canadien sur le commerce interieur (ACI) - le chapitre sur la mobilite de la main-d’œuvre, et l'apparition de nouvelles legislations provinciales dans certains cas, concernant l'acces equitable aux professions reglementees, ont necessite des modifications sur la maniere d’evaluer les competences des personnes requerant un permis d’exercice au titre de geoscientifique professionnel. En particulier, le chapitre 7 de l’ACI prevoit desormais que tout professionnel licencie (enregistre) dans l'une des provinces ou territoires du Canada, puisse l’etre aussi dans une autre province ou territoire sans reevaluation, formation de reclassement ou nouveaux examens d’admission. En somme cela equivaut a une reconnaissance legale mutuelle par toutes les autorites de reglementation a travers le Canada, pour chaque profession. Certaines des professions reglementees du Canada ont reagit a ce changement en centralisant leurs activites d'evaluation des competences, par la creation et l'utilisation des services d'une agence nationale d'administration des accreditations. Dans certains cas, cela s'est traduit par une reduction de l’autonomie et la flexibilite d’operation des autorites provinciales. Les autorites de reglementation des geosciences au Canada (qui sont les memes qui reglementent les professions du genie dans de nombreuses provinces) ont repondu a la necessite d'harmonisation par un mecanisme different. Le « Cadre pour l’evaluation menant a l’attribution du permis d’exercice aux geoscientifiques en sol canadien / Framework for assessment processes in the licensing of Professional Geoscientists in Canada » elabore par Geoscientifiques Canada en collaboration et pour ses associations constituantes, est concu pour assurer la coherence dans les decisions relatives aux permis d’exercice au Canada sans compromission sur les normes, ni empietement sur l'independance de chacune des autorites. Le present article decrit les grandes lignes de l’argumentaire de cette approche ainsi que le processus qui en a decoule. On y presente egalement le « Cadre » qui en a resulte.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".