COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL ADULT EDUCATION: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SOME MAJOR ADULT EDUCATION JOURNALS
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study comprised a comprehensive content analysis of some of the major journals focusing on comparative and international adult education. The journals are: (1) ‘International journal of lifelong education’ published by Routledge (UK); (2) ‘Convergence’, published by the International Council for Adult Education (Uruguay, formerly in Canada) and NIACE (UK); and (3) ‘Studies in the education of adults’, published by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (England and Wales) (NIACE). The study addressed several questions: How is the contribution of authors from different countries represented in the publications of selected journals from 1990 to 2004? How is comparative adult education represented in the selected journals from 1990 to 2004? How do the types of comparative articles and research vary in these journals across the last 14 years (1990-2004)? How do research topics vary in these journals across the last 14 years?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".