The Australian Guidance and Counselling Association: Meeting the needs of our members and Australian students
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article the main work of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association (AGCA) is reviewed. This review begins with a description of our organization and membership; namely, that the AGCA is a national organization comprised of various state chapters whose membership includes psychologists and counsellors who often hold teaching qualifications. Members tend to be employed by or attached to the education sector. The AGCA's international links, professional development activities, publications, and projects are also outlined. Specifically, the AGCA's international links include the International Association for Counselling, the International School Psychologists' Association, the Canadian Counselling Association, and the Georgian School Psychologists' Association. Professional development activities include a national conference held every 2 years and the sponsoring of national tours by eminent professionals in the field. A special conference is planned for 2006 in conjunction with the International Association for Counselling in Brisbane, Queensland. The AGCA is also active in publishing related research. Since 1991 the AGCA's journal, the Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, has been publishing regular and special editions. The journal is presented in detail along with the regular newsletter of the organization. Additionally, the AGCA is involved with various special projects that are described in detail. These include the teaching prosocial behaviour to adolescents project, in which the AGCA engaged in the 1990s, and current involvement with the MindMatters Plus project, which focuses on students with high support needs in the area of mental health.
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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 | 0.018 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
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".