Priorities in the recruitment of French immersion teachers in British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study entitled 'Priorities in the Recruitment of French Immersion Teachers in British Columbia' compared the priorities of French immersion parents and school district Directors of Human Resources on issues surrounding French immersion teacher recruitment. A survey was sent to 44 Directors of Human Resources, representing all school districts with French immersion programs in the province, with a response rate of 64 percent. One hundred surveys were sent to French immersion parents in the province with a response rate of 48 percent. Seven follow-up interviews were conducted. The results of the survey revealed a consensus amongst parents, Directors of Human Resources and university French immersion pre-service teacher education programs in British Columbia on the minimum expected level of French proficiency for a French immersion teacher. Parents and Directors of Human Resources rated language skills as a top priority followed by teaching skills, personal qualities and knowledge of French culture. Nonetheless, respondents from both groups qualified their rankings by saying that it would be undesirable to possess one set of characteristics at the expense of another. Parents expressed a preference for francophone French immersion teachers, particularly from Quebec, and may therefore be surprised by the high number of anglophones teaching in the program. Directors of Human Resources expressed a preference for hiring graduates from the French immersion stream df pre-service teacher education programs followed by bilingual anglophones. They suggested that anglophones tended to be local teachers who, due to their familiarity with school culture, would be easier to retain than teachers from elsewhere. Using a teacher shortage spectrum formulated for this study, Directors of Human Resources provided the average number of job applicants for a typical job opening in the French immersion and English streams in the 2001 - 2002 school-year in their school district. A shortage of French immersion teachers was found to exist in British Columbia. The shortage is worse in rural school districts than in urban school districts. No shortage of teachers was reported in the English stream. Encouragingly, all school districts reported that they verify the level of French proficiency of French immersion teacher candidates although the tools used to do s o vary significantly from district to district, from checking course work credentials only to having prospective immersion teachers complete oral and written tests. Parents and Directors of Human Resources expressed opposition to lowering hiring standards in order to address and shortage of French immersion teachers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.016 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".