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Record W195824837

Student Writing Conferences: Teaching Outside the Classroom

2013· article· en· W195824837 on OpenAlexaff
Jill S. Jones

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarship@Western (Western University) · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Windsor
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPunctuationComposition (language)Mathematics educationSubject matterGrammarComputer scienceSubject (documents)Professional writingField (mathematics)PedagogyPsychologyCurriculumLinguisticsWorld Wide WebMathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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For years, teachers of English Composition have used individual student conferences to build on concepts taught in the classroom and to provide specific feedback on students’ writing. This approach to teaching writing has been very effective with composition students, but the concept has elements that would prove helpful to students and teachers outside of composition classes and into other disciplines as well. Individualized attention will benefit students in any area of study where writing assignments figure into course requirements; not just with respect to perfecting grammar and punctuation, but in generating ideas, methods of appropriate research, and the arrangement of information in a piece of writing. Meeting with an expert in the field assists students in gaining a deeper understanding of their subject matter as well as the requirements of the assignment in order to ensure success. Instructors are in a unique position to give meaningful guidance on specific projects to their students, and to ensure that concepts taught in the classroom are being understood. This workshop will introduce the concept of student conferencing along with the many ways in which it proves beneficial for students and also advantageous for instructors.

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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)0.022
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.114

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.022
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.002
Scholarly communication0.0100.007
Open science0.0040.010
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0340.014

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 head0.135
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.187 · 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
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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