Geoheritage 3. Attracting Students to the Earth Sciences: An Example of Individual and Collective Outreach Efforts by Industry, Academia and Secondary Education
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Abstract
Too few Canadian high-school students are pursuing post-secondary studies and career opportunities in the earth sciences. Given Canada’s wealth of renewable and non-renewable resources and their importance to society, it is imperative that students become literate in the earth sciences, and that they are encouraged to pursue career opportunities in the many fields that constitute the earth sciences. To achieve these goals, a number of out-reach efforts by members of industry, academia and secondary education have been initiated. We outline here an example of our own collaboration in one such program directed not only at students, but also at primary and secondary teachers, university faculty, industry representatives and government officials. Our program has achieved significant results, and so will continue. Others interested in increasing the profile of the earth sciences are encouraged to explore such new out-reach approaches. SOMMAIRE Trop peu d’eleves des ecoles secondaires au Canada poursuivent des etudes en sciences de la Terre et choisissent d’y faire carriere. Etant donne la richesse du Canada en ressources renouvelables et non-renouvelables et leurs importances pour le bien commun, il est absolument essentiel que les eleves acquierent des connaissances de base en sciences de la Terre et soit encourager a embrasser des carrieres dans l’une des nombreuses specialites du champ des sciences de la Terre. Pour y arriver, un certain nombre d’initiatives de sensibilisation ont ete lancees par des membres du secteur industriel, du monde universitaire, et de l’education secondaire. Nous decrivons brievement ci-dessous notre collaboration dans le cadre d’un programme du genre visant non seulement les eleves, mais aussi les enseignants des ecoles primaires et secondaires, les membres du corps professoral des universites, les representants du secteur industriel et ceux des gouvernements. Notre programme a connu des succes importants, et donc il sera maintenu. Nous incitons toute personne interessee a promouvoir l’image des sciences de la Terre a considerer de telles approches nouvelles.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.003 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".