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Record W194158086

Ethical Literacy for Today's Schools.

2005· article· en· W194158086 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Paula Mirk

Bibliographic record

VenueEducation Canada · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicValues and Moral Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic relationsPaceLiteracyPolitical scienceTask (project management)WarrantSociologyPsychologyLawSocial psychologyBusiness
DOInot available

Abstract

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school, or give this one more time and encouragement to improve performance? As a school head, should I apply the same discipline for this student as I would for any other, or should I take into account circumstances that might warrant making an exception? As a classroom teacher, how can I balance the extra time one of my students needs, with the fast pace that keeps the rest of my students attentive and interested? As a student, should I choose to report the dangerous behavior of my friend, even though I swore myself to secrecy? Really tough ethical dilemmas come about when core values conflict. The task of determining the “higher right” can be daunting. How can we respect short term needs that seem pitted against other, longer term responsibilities? Does fairness always trump compassion, or are there times when it’s more ethical to bend the rules? How can I balance my responsibilities to an individual if they conflict with the needs of a larger group? When does my regard for the truth outweigh my responsibility to confidentiality? Everyone in a school community is faced at times with this kind of values-based decision making. So everyone can benefit from paying attention to ethics as both an urgent literacy requirement for our students, and as a unifying force in developing positive school culture. Both those reasons lay behind the founding of The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE), an international, non partisan and non sectarian charity with offices in Canada, England and the U.S. IGE’s president, Rushworth M. Kidder, learned about the urgency of this issue as one of the first Western journalists to cover the Chernobyl reactor disaster. He was deeply alarmed that, as he says, “before there was a nuclear meltdown, there had been a moral meltdown.”

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.117

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.013
Scholarly communication0.0130.010
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0080.019
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0350.015

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.371 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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