The Development of Agency
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Agency is a relational developmental construct. The most basic form of agency is already present in the dynamic, self‐organizing activities of living systems. We discuss how, from the earliest point in the development of persons, agency manifests in different forms and grows through the interrelations of various bio‐psycho‐social processes. These processes can be organized into general levels, including the levels of biophysical agency, psychosocial agency, and sociocultural agency. We further describe how the most flexible and richest forms of agency seen in adulthood build from developmental processes evidenced throughout the life span: infants’ sensorimotor and perceptual functioning, toddlers’ symbolic representational and linguistic functioning, the child's self‐regulatory functioning, and adolescents’ and young adults’ moral functioning. Altogether these functions provide persons with the ability to create the conditions for their own agency, particularly through their participation in community life. This chapter ends with a discussion of the role that civic institutions, especially higher education, must play in expanding human agency.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".