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Record W2021091130 · doi:10.1080/00094056.2015.1018772

What Is Teaching? Inside the Black Box of What Teachers Do

2015· article· en· W2021091130 on OpenAlexaff
Selma Wassermann

Bibliographic record

VenueChildhood Education · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTeacher Education and Leadership Studies
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRubricAccountabilitySet (abstract data type)Context (archaeology)Perspective (graphical)PedagogyMathematics educationStudent achievementStudent engagementTeaching methodPsychologyQuality (philosophy)Academic achievementPolitical scienceComputer science

Abstract

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The article emphasizes the importance of taking a broad approach to understanding the act of teaching, especially in the context of teacher evaluation. It attempts to shift the commonly held notion of teaching as a one-directional act of instruction provided by teachers with the aim to inform, help, and advise learners in their efforts to attain pre-set curricular goals. The wider stance takes into consideration teacher-student relationships and various overt and subtle acts of differentiation and scaffolding that the teacher carries out to facilitate effective student learning and enhance student motivation and engagement. Such a wider perspective is especially relevant in developing rubrics for assessing instruction quality in an environment largely dominated by discourses on assessment and accountability in education—both in teaching and learning.

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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)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
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 score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.053

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.047
Scholarly communication0.0140.024
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0050.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

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 head0.072
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.304 · 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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