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Record W200303199

Focus Groups with Children: Do They Work?

2001· article· en· W200303199 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian journal of information science · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicFocus Groups and Qualitative Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesPolitical sciencePhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Une documentation considerable existe sur l'utilisation des groupes de consultation comme technique de recherche, et les principaux guides methodologiques concordent largement. Il est encore relativement rare, cependant, que les chercheurs en sciences de l'information utilisent cette methodologie pour explorer le comportement informationnel des enfants (par opposition aux adultes); l'experimentation ou l'observation sont les techniques de base. Cet article fait etat de l'experience des auteurs a organiser des groupes de consultation d'enfants pour obtenir leurs avis sur des portails Web existants, specialement concus pour des enfants, et sur comment ceux-ci pourraient etre ameliores. Ces groupes de consultation representaient l'etape finale d'un projet de recherche de grande envergure sur le comportement des enfants du primaire en recherche d'information dans un environnement informatique. Les groupes de consultation comportant des enfants plutot que des adultes peuvent fournir un outil methodologique estimable pour les chercheurs. Dans le cas present, cependant, non seulement les guides normatifs pour l'utilisation des groupes de consultation doivent etre soigneusement consideres, mais un certain nombre d'elements supplementaires se rapportant specifiquement aux enfants doivent etre introduis afin d'assurer la validite et la fiabilite des donnees.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.390
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.005
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.298 · 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