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Record W2017614752 · doi:10.1177/1045159515573018

Learning at the Center

2015· article· en· W2017614752 on OpenAlexaff
Lisa Prins, Ana Laura Pauchulo, Auralia Brooke, Joe Corrigan

Bibliographic record

VenueAdult Learning · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInnovative Education and Learning Practices
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeneral partnershipAdult educationCurriculumPedagogyLearning communityCooperative learningAdult LearningProcess (computing)PsychologyExperiential learningSociologyKnowledge managementComputer scienceTeaching methodPolitical science

Abstract

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We ask the reader to consider a proposal for cooperative renewal in the evaluation of a course (OurU) offered in partnership between a university and community-based adult learning center. This proposal’s aim is to enhance adult learners’ ability to evaluate their learning experiences, with the goal of adopting more learner-directed content into OurU’s curriculum. Drawing from instructional team members’ experiences in a diverse adult learning environment, the authors propose steps to develop a more holistic and dynamic approach to evaluation. In this snapshot of a course operating within the same budgetary realities familiar to others in the field, resourcing evaluation is a priority for developing a dynamic assessment evaluation model. This article is offered from the view that learning is a social process and community-based research and learning can be an organic connection place between universities and the communities they serve. This article is intended primarily for practitioners in community-based adult learning contexts seeking alternatives to course evaluation processes that situate learners at the process center, as well as academics interested in participating in partnering with community adult learning centers to strengthen adult learners’ evaluation and research capacity.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.126
Threshold uncertainty score0.420

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0090.003
Scholarly communication0.0110.008
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1260.023

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 head0.085
GPT teacher head0.407
Teacher spread0.321 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
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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