Review of Using Consultants to Improve Teaching. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 79
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This volume is a compilation of a series of presentations made at the 1998 International Consortium for Educational Development in a session on models of individual instructional consultation.The converging message of the chapters is the need for formal pedagogical development of faculty and the merit of peer consulting in addressing this need.The sourcebook is written by practitioners for practitioners and as such, it will be a useful reference for instructional development centres and their staff.Both editors, Christopher Knapper and Sergio Piccinin, are actively involved in faculty development activities in their respective institutions, as are the remaining chapter contributors.Though the reader may not find the description of various approaches to peer consulting terribly novel, reading about peer consulting approaches as they have been implemented internationally (Canada, the United States, Britain, Norway, Australia) and in a range of postsecondary institutions is bound to be of interest.The first chapter, co-authored by the editors, offers an overview about the individual consulting process as one of the services typically offered by instructional development centres.The authors underscore the need for instructional development centres to clearly articulate the conception of teaching that underpins their instructional consulting and guides them in using strategies to diagnose problems and to bring about change.The authors then raise several questions which frame the content of subsequent chapters.For instance: Who are the users of instructional development centres?What kinds of issues prompt individuals to seek guidance from faculty developers?What kinds of skills are needed in peer consulting?How are these skills developed?Who should be a consultant: disciplinary peers or pedagogical specialists?What is the best process for selecting consultants and what kind of support can be most beneficial to consultants?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.013 | 0.039 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.005 |
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.
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".