Introducing student projects in introductory electromagnetics: what have we learned?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this work, a trial introduction of student projects as a mandatory part of the fundamental EM course. In particular, in order to comply with the curriculum at McGill University, the paper is limited to topics on electrostatics, magnetostatics and the slowly time-varying fields. Nonetheless, even these limitations left sufficient room to find applications upon which students could base their projects and present them in class to their peers. In order to avoid jeopardizing the learning of EM fundamentals and the rigors of the associated mathematical formulations, the project carried only 10% of the overall course grade. Nonetheless, the students approached it enthusiastically and their feedback suggests that the student projects may be a tool of choice for improving the dynamics of undergraduate EM teaching.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it