The ICE Approach: Saving the World One Broken Toaster at a Time
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, Grahame Renyk and Jenn Stephenson (Drama Department, Queen's University) discuss their use of ICE in a first-year theatre studies classroom to foster active (and activist) student engagement with learning. Developed by Sue Fostaty-Young and Robert Wilson, ICE (Ideas, Connections, Extensions) is primarily a tool for assessing progressive mastery of skills or concepts. Learners begin with Ideas – basic facts, definitions or rules. They then move on to make Connections between these foundational bits, identifying cause-and-effect relations or other patterns. At the last stage, they reach Extensions where they are able to synthesize material to create new models and apply these models beyond the original context. Although Renyk and Stephenson use ICE for assessment, they discuss here how ICE can be employed in assignment design to structure student engagement with the principal goal of challenging learners to take initiative and pleasure in their own learning.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".