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Record W2412949491

If You Teach Them To Write They Will Read

2016· article· en· W2412949491 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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

VenueEuropean Scientific Journal ESJ · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation Methods and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReading (process)Mathematics educationLearning to readWriting processOrder (exchange)PedagogyPsychologyLiteracyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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There is a reading crisis in the U.S. where many teachers do not know how to teach children to read. “You learn to read from kinder to 3rd grade, so that you can read to learn from 4th grade on.” Unfortunately sixty five percent (65%) of all US fourth graders cannot read at grade level. (The Annie E. Casey Foundation: National KIDS COUNT. 2015). Research makes it clear that most children require direct instruction in order to learn to read. (“National Reading Panel” Chapters 2 & 3. 2000) Over a period of 40 years, the writer has prepared more than 2,500 Montessori Teachers in Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, France and Switzerland. His alumni have opened 25 Montessori schools in Costa Rica and more than 100 Montessori schools in Mexico. The author and his alumni have used the teaching strategies described in this monograph to teach thousands of children to write and read successfully. This study also challenges the Conventional Wisdom that “books are in print so we must teach children to print.” The writer’s research demonstrates that Conventional Wisdom is wrong and he challenges the reader to consider the benefits of teaching children to master longhand cursive writing instead of print, because it facilitates both the process and the quality of writing and reading.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.834
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.004

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 head0.103
GPT teacher head0.402
Teacher spread0.298 · 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