Measuring Undergraduate Student Perceptions of the Impact of Project Lead The Way
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Numerous reports and studies have identified K-12 engineering programs as a means of addressing the “pipeline” issue by increasing interest in pursuing engineering as a career and preparing K-12 students for further study in engineering at the university level1. Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is the most prevalent high school engineering program, and is often cited as a model for including engineering in the K-12 curriculum. PLTW can trace its roots to the Shenendehowa Central School District in upstate New York. The success achieved there in encouraging students' interest in engineering lead to the creation of PLTW and, in 1997, theadoption by 12 New York State high schools of PLTW's Pathway to Engineering Curriculum.The curriculum consists of two introductory courses, five elective courses in a variety of engineering disciplines, and a capstone design class. PLTW programs are now offered in all 50 states and more than 4,200 schools with an enrollment of over 400,000 students2.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".