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Text Book Evaluation: A Retrospective Study

2011· article· en· W2197808469 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of academic and applied studies · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChecklistSummitVocabularySubject matterMathematics educationSubject (documents)Computer sciencePsychologyMedical educationPedagogyLibrary scienceCurriculumMedicineLinguisticsGeographyCartography
DOInot available

Abstract

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The purpose of this survey study was to assess the suitability of the textbook “Summit 2B” for Undergraduate University Students (UUSs) based on two criteria, i.e. subject matter and vocabulary/structure. The study conducted at Tabriz Islamic Azad University and Urmia Jahad Daneshgahi. The participants of the study were 150 including 10 instructors (8 males and 2 females) and 140 students (60 males and 80 females). Two means were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. First, checklist adopted from Doaud & CelceMurcia (1979) was given to both instructors and students and the obtained data were analyzed by using SPSS software. Second, instructors were interviewed individually to answer the open-ended questions prepared by researchers. The results of the study revealed that the textbook “Summit 2B” is suitable for UUSs based on the instructors’ and students’ points of views. The findings have implications for ELT material developers, designers, and also for teachers in choosing the proper textbooks in their teaching process.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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 score0.117
Threshold uncertainty score0.333

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
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 head0.153
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.185 · 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