Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the mid -1980s,China has enacted anOpen Doorpolicy which permits establishment of foreign(offshore) schools in China.British Columbia(BC) was the first Canadian province to authorize the establishment of an offshore school in 1995(in Canada all matters related to education are the responsibility of the provinces).Offshore schools and programs are private schools regulated by Chinese and BC law,using the BC curriculum,learning objectives,teaching materials,as well as employing BC certified teachers and principals.They are certified by the BC Ministry of Education and inspected in regular intervals. Other Canadian provinces have followed suit and in early 2007 there were some 80 Canadianoffshoreschools(out of some 800 Chinese - foreign cooperation schools in China).Although their numbers has been growing fast due to continuing demand for such schools,they are marginal in the Chinese school system.In addition to the present economic downturn that will have a dampening effect on demand,at least in the short term,there are a number of critical issues that can be expected to have an impact on their longer term viability.Four of these will be briefly discussed.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".