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Record W2025768070 · doi:10.5172/mra.2012.6.3.332

Epilogue

2012· article· en· W2025768070 on OpenAlex
Kathleen M. T. Collins

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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

VenueInternational Journal of Multiple Research Approaches · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicEducational Assessment and Improvement
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContext (archaeology)DocumentationPresentation (obstetrics)MultimethodologyContent analysisData presentationPublishingProject commissioningFocus (optics)Descriptive statisticsLibrary scienceComputer scienceData sciencePsychologySociologyMathematics educationSocial scienceGeographyStatisticsPolitical scienceMathematicsMedicine

Abstract

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The purpose of the current study was to evidence how ‘mixing’ is interpreted by researchers and to draw interpretations that would continue to map how mixed research contributes to the advancement of scientific inquiry. The data source consisted of peer-reviewed abstracts of mixed research papers that were accepted for presentation at the 2012 annual meeting of AERA in Vancouver, British Columbia. A parallel mixed analysis was implemented in two phases. Phase 1, descriptive data were compiled (frequencies percentages) detailing the prevalence of mixed research topics in the abstracts. Phase 2, a content analysis involving a text analysis was implemented, and the results were analyzed utilizing within-case and cross-case analyses. Specifically, each abstract (i.e., case) was read and the abstract’s content and the author-generated descriptors were used in tandem to generate a context that specified the focus of each topic (i.e., contextual descriptors). Additionally, to ascertain the methodological focus of each abstract, the abstracts were categorized in accordance to the three components comprising Teddlie and Tashakkori’s (2010) ‘Emerging ‘Map’ of Mixed Methods Research. To continue further this line of documentation, each of the seven articles in this special issue was mapped to one of three components comprising the map. Results indicated a balance of educational topics categorized across the three components. Implications are discussed in the context of responding to the question ‘Is Mixed Research Science?’

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.

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)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.371
Threshold uncertainty score0.896

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.000
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 head0.789
GPT teacher head0.579
Teacher spread0.210 · 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