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Record W2163718348 · doi:10.21432/t2b01g

Using Videoconferencing to Provide Mentorship in Inquiry-Based Urban and Rural Secondary Classrooms

2010· article· en· W2163718348 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Learning and Technology · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Technology Integration
Canadian institutionsMount Royal UniversityUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMentorshipMathematics educationPsychologyLearning environmentVideoconferencingPedagogyComputer scienceMedical educationMedicineMultimedia

Abstract

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The main purpose of this design-based research study is to examine the effects of an inquiry-based learning environment, with the support of videoconferencing, on both rural and urban secondary students’ mathematics and science learning. An important aspect of this learning environment is the use of videoconferencing to connect classes with mathematicians/ scientists (as e-mentors). Specifically, the following two research questions guide this study: (1) In what ways, if any, does the inquiry-based learning environment impact student beliefs and learning outcomes? (2) What challenges emerge in the development of an inquiry-based learning environment with secondary students in both rural and urban schools? Using a mixed methods approach, this study focuses on two grade 9 classes in an urban school and three Grade 8 classes in a rural school. The results suggest positive effects of this learning environment on student learning of math and science. In particular, both urban and rural students showed significant gains in their achievement. In addition, students showed an increased interest and heightened confidence in math and science. As well, the results point to issues arising from the process, suggesting useful guidelines for the development of such environments. Résumé : L’objectif principal de cette étude de recherche axée sur la conception est d’examiner les effets d’un environnement d’apprentissage basé sur le processus d’enquête et utilisant le soutien de la vidéoconférence sur l’apprentissage des mathématiques et des sciences auprès d’élèves du secondaire en milieux ruraux et urbains. L’utilisation de la vidéoconférence pour mettre les classes en lien avec des mathématiciens et des scientifiques (en tant que cybermentors) constitue un aspect important de cet environnement d’apprentissage. Plus précisément, les deux questions suivantes orientent la présente étude : (1) De quelle manière, le cas échéant, l’environnement d’apprentissage basé sur le processus d’enquête a-t-il un effet sur les croyances et les résultats d’apprentissage des élèves? (2) Quels défis émergent lors de la mise en place d’un environnement d’apprentissage basé sur le processus d’enquête auprès d’élèves du secondaire dans des écoles en milieux ruraux et urbains? Cette étude, qui utilise une méthode de recherche mixte, se concentre sur deux classes de 9e année dans une école urbaine et trois classes de 8e année dans une école rurale. Les résultats suggèrent que cet environnement d’apprentissage a des effets positifs sur l’apprentissage des mathématiques et des sciences par les élèves. En particulier, les étudiants des milieux urbains et ruraux ont affiché des gains significatifs dans leurs acquis scolaires. En outre, les élèves ont démontré un intérêt croissant pour les mathématiques et les sciences de même qu’une confiance accrue dans ces matières. Enfin, les résultats permettent également d’identifier certains éléments qu’il convient d’examiner relativement à ce processus et de suggérer des lignes directrices utiles pour la mise en place de tels environnements.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.879
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.290 · 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