Measuring Parental Beliefs about the Developmental Significance of Preschool Children’s Daily Activities: the Children’s Daily Activities-Parental Beliefs Scale
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Abstract
The study presents the Children’s Daily Activities-Parental Beliefs (CDA-PB) scale, a newly developedinstrument providing parental assessment of the developmental significance of family-based, preschoolchildren’s daily activities. These activities are considered as primary contexts for understanding children’slearning and development and parental beliefs are critical for both the organization of such activities as well asparents’ participation in them. Study informants were 383 mothers of preschool children attending daycarecentres and kindergartens in the greater Athens area in Greece. Mothers completed a self-report questionnairewhich included the CDA-PB and two other scales targeting at the report of the frequency of daily activities’occurrence and mothers’ participation in them. Following a series of principal component analysis with varimaxrotation the final form of the CDA-PB scale consisted of 30 items loaded on five components representing theperceived significance for certain types of activities, namely: “Household and self-care activities”, “Recurrentoutings”, “Pre-academic activities”, “Play activities”, and “Home entertainment activities”. In addition,inter-correlations were revealed with the other two scales. Overall, the results are compatible with empiricalevidence from different cultural settings and provide initial support for the use of this scale. Limitations of thepresent study and future research priorities are also addressed.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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