Matters of Design and Visual Literacy: One Middle Years Student's Multimodal Artifact
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Meanings are created, represented, and communicated in multimodal ways in our contemporary world. The dominance of the visual in modern society requires students to be visually literate to understand, appreciate, interpret, and compose the content and the design of multimodal texts that include images. This article features the case study of Jaelyn, a Grade 6 student who participated in a classroom-based research project that explored developing student visual meaning-making skills and competencies by focusing specifically on a selection of visual elements of art and design in picturebooks and graphic novels. The semiotic analysis of Jaelyn's multimodal print text that was completed at the end of the research, as well as excerpts from her interview about her composition, revealed how her participation in the learning opportunities afforded during the explorative study influenced her sign-making. The article concludes with a discussion of pedagogical and assessment issues associated with teaching students about visual elements of art and design. Keywords: multimodaldesignvisual elementsmetalanguagecompositiontextsclassroom-based research
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".