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Record W2164472299 · doi:10.33524/cjar.v13i1.32

DELVING INTO CRITICAL LITERACY IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM

2012· article· en· W2164472299 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mark Bennett

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Action Research · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Critical Thinking Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCritical literacyCritical thinkingMeaning (existential)LiteracyPower (physics)NewspaperPedagogyPoint (geometry)Mathematics educationPower pointPsychologyInformation literacySociologyMedia studies

Abstract

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There is power in the written word. However, the power behind any idea requires the reader to be judicious in its meaning. When we read any literature—a poster, billboard advertisement, newspaper article, artwork, book or play— are we being unwittingly coerced by the author’s message? In fact, we may simply be absorbing someone else’s point of view with little insight on our part. Developing critical literacy skills in students from an early age is vital and should be every teacher’s goal. When students are taught how to evaluate a text in critical terms, they are empowered to consider and analyze the influences that are shaping their thoughts and ideas. Strong critical thinking skills enable students to question and challenge attitudes, values, and beliefs that are hidden below the surface as they read or listen to an author’s message. The challenge for teachers is to help students unlock its mystery, to understand the basic intent of an author’s message. As teachers, how do we provide students with the critical literacy skills to comprehend?

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.084

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.023
Scholarly communication0.0160.007
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0040.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

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 head0.204
GPT teacher head0.524
Teacher spread0.320 · 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 designQualitative
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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