Teachers' Perspectives on the Family Backgrounds of Children at Risk.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT. This paper focuses on a qualitative study that investigated beliefs held by four teachers in high poverty communities about the family backgrounds of children they considered to be at risk for failure in school and later in life. Results indicated that the presence of child abuse in the home, alcoholism, and single or absent parents were the most frequently mentioned family risks thought by the teachers to be affecting specific children in their classrooms. However, the teachers also expressed uncertainty about the level of their understanding of families and about the nature of cause-and-effect relationships between familial factors and outcomes. Further, while the teachers saw familial difficulties as risks for children, they also highlighted the importance of systemic problems such as the lack of support for families in poverty and the differential responsiveness of schools to the more affluent and powerful parents. They also seemed to empathize with single parents, and believed that the cultural backgrounds of Indian and Metis students were a source of strength for Aboriginal children when they were at risk. RESUME. Cet article decrit une etude qualitative sur les croyances qu'entretiennent quatre enseignants de collectivites tres pauvres relativement aux antecedents familiaux des enfants qu'ils jugent «a risque», a savoir en voie d'echec a l'ecole, puis dans la vie active, et plus tard dans la vie. Les resultats demontrent que, parmi les facteurs familiaux de risque affectant des eleves de leur propre classe, les enseignants mentionnent le plus frequemment l'alcoolisme, les sevices subis par les enfants au foyer familial, l'absence d'un parent voire des deux parents. Toutefois, les enseignants reconnaissent leurs incertitudes quant au niveau de comprehension qu'ils ont des familles et quant a la nature des relations causales entre les facteurs familiaux et les resultats scolaires. Par ailleurs, meme si les professeurs considerent que les difficultes familiales sont des facteurs pour les enfants, ils soulignent egalement l'importance de problemes systemiques comme le non-soutien des familles pauvres et la receptivite differente des ecoles face aux parents plus influents et puissants. Ils semblent egalement empathiser avec les parents celibataires et sont d'avis que les antecedents culturels des eleves indiens et metis sont une source de dynamisme pour les enfants autochtones a risque.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".