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Record W2155053401 · doi:10.24908/pceea.v0i0.3609

EVALUATION OF A FIRST YEAR DESIGN COURSE

2011· article· en· W2155053401 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Tiffany Veltman, William Rosehart

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicEngineering Education and Curriculum Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCourse (navigation)PropositionCourse evaluationStrengths and weaknessesComputer scienceMathematics educationEngineering managementPsychologyEngineeringHigher education

Abstract

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In this paper, we discuss the evaluation of a first year design and communications course, implemented in the Fall of 2010 at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary.Operating on the proposition that providing a theoretical framework of design prior to the lab projects would improve the students’ ability to follow a design processThe remainder of this paper discusses the evaluation of the effectiveness of this revised course structure, in terms of both the student learning outcomes achieved, and the general student satisfaction of the course. Data was gathered from open and closed-ended surveys, as well as focus groups and interviews. The data from these sources was then triangulated, in order to obtain a holistic impression of the strengths and weaknesses of the course., the new design and communications course provides lectures on the principles of design, project management, and communication (verbal, written, and graphical), while weekly workshops require the students to apply their theoretical knowledge to practical applications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.042
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.085

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.042
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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