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Record W200303199

Focus Groups with Children: Do They Work?

2001· article· en· W200303199 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Andrew Large, Jamshid Beheshti

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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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)0.143
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.213
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.857
Threshold uncertainty score0.756

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1430.213
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0070.009
Scholarly communication0.0080.015
Open science0.0050.011
Research integrity0.0050.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.007

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
DomainMethods
GenreEmpirical

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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Citations8
Published2001
Admission routes1
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