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Record W1953483110 · doi:10.33524/cjar.v15i1.116

ACTION RESEARCH: NOT JUST FOR THE CLASSROOM

2014· article· en· W1953483110 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Kurt W. Clausen

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Action Research · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTeacher Education and Leadership Studies
Canadian institutionsNipissing University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAction researchAction (physics)EmpowermentNatural (archaeology)PedagogySociologyPsychologyMathematics educationPolitical scienceLawGeography

Abstract

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When it comes to action research, some people seemed convinced that classroom teachers have a corner on the market. There does seem to be a natural fit. Research questions emerge all the time when students are involved, and they seem prepared to act as willing participants in any project that one might throw at them (providing it gets them away from a boring routine). Traditionally, teachers have toggled between purveyors of knowledge and educational leaders, so a fertile ground exists as the classroom becomes a nursery for researcher empowerment. However, in focusing on this area of action research, meta-analysis can, at times, overshadow the many other disciplines and workplaces that employ action research as standard practice.

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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)0.191
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.200
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.191
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1910.200
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.002
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0160.077
Scholarly communication0.0310.057
Open science0.0050.014
Research integrity0.0160.038
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.006

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 head0.862
GPT teacher head0.611
Teacher spread0.251 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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