A BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK PROGRAMME IN CANADA: ASSESSMENT OF NEED AND FEASIBILITY
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Social Service Worker students, both past and present, were surveyed to determine their interest in enrolling in a Bachelor of Social Work Progamme at Douglas College in British Columbia, Canada. Without a predictable catchment of students from the community it would be difficult for faculty and management at the college to justify funding the programme, designing new curriculum, hiring additional instructors, etc. Students were surveyed using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative measures over a period of approximately two months. Summary of the data met with positive results yet ongoing research challenges include developing curriculum for approval by college management and the Canadian Association of Social Workers, securing funding from the Ministry of Advanced Education, and hiring additional faculty. As part of its strategic plan the management at Douglas are committed to developing a college with the highest level of Bachelor level programmes offered in the province of British Columbia. As a research problem then it remains to be seen if the interest expressed by those surveyed will translate into the BSW actually being created and delivered.
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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 | 0.010 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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".