“THERMODYNAMICS IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT!” [7] AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON INCORPORATING ACTIVE LEARNING INTO A FIRST YEAR THERMODYNAMICS COURSE
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Student engagement is deemed as one of the fundamental components of consequential learning. Essentially, contextualizing information in authentic events and situations and designing active learning experiences to orchestrate opportunities for students to construct their own knowledge are ways to engage students in their own learning process. This paper reports on a Professor’s efforts to turn a traditional, lecture- based first year Thermodynamics course into an active learning arena. The study uses a qualitative approach to data collection and analysis, with data amassed through participant observations and open-ended interviews with the Professor. A number of categories and themes have already emerged. This paper outlines the category, Instructional Strategies, and discusses how they were modified and/or amplified to incorporate active learning in an attempt to further engage students.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it