MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W2155614469 · doi:10.1177/000841740707400401

Why Theory Matters

2007· editorial· en· W2155614469 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Marcia Finlayson

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Occupational Therapy · 2007
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicOccupational Therapy Practice and Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologySociology

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

s a student, I tolerated my occupational therapy the- ory class. I didn't fully appreciate the importance or value of it, and I didn't know how I was going to actu- ally use the concepts, definitions, and models that were being explained to me once I started to practice. It all seemed very abstract and rather esoteric. I wanted to learn how to do things and I didn't see how theory was going to help me do. At that point in my career, theory didn't matter. After read- ing the article by Hodgetts, Hollis, Triska, Dennis, Madill and Taylor (2007) in the June issue, it appears that my initial response to theory was not unusual. Students often express a desire to learn technical skills over theory and research. Fortunately, a lot has changed for me in 20 years. The importance of theory (finally) dawned on me in 1991 when I started to work for the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapist's Seniors' Health Promotion Project. My colleagues (Brenda Fraser, Lori Letts, and June Walls) and I set out to develop, demonstrate and evaluate the role of occupational therapists in health promotion with seniors. In a position where there were no role models and no clear parameters for what to do or how to do it, suddenly theory mattered - a lot. I remember re-reading my theory textbook and having the ah-ha moment. I realized how theory could help me decide what to do and what not to do during the course of the pro-

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.029
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.211
GPT teacher head0.520
Teacher spread0.309 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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".

Quick stats

Citations15
Published2007
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueCanadian Journal of Occupational TherapySame topicOccupational Therapy Practice and ResearchFrench-language works237,207