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Record W243232405 · doi:10.1177/0145482x1210600902

Dr. Wormsley's Greeting

2012· article· en· W243232405 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Diane P. Wormsley

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Visual Impairment & Blindness · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicAssistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFeelingBest practicePsychologyPopulationFace (sociological concept)ReputationPublic relationsPolitical scienceSociologySocial psychologyLawSocial science

Abstract

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I cannot say hello without personally thanking Dr. Geruschat for his priceless contribution as editor in chief of JVIB since 2004. In my estimation, his stamp on the journal has cemented its position as the highly respected professional journal of record for the field of visual impairment and has helped it gain the international reputation that it holds today. One of the many discussions that he and I have had recently, in trying to make this editorial shift a seamless transition, involved our feelings regarding the importance of JVIB's contribution to building a solid base of research evidence for the field. Although the body of research for our field has grown over the years, as professionals, we still do not have the answers to so many practice-related questions that constantly concern us. This fact was brought home to me in a very tangible way a few years ago, when I was asked to contribute to a book chapter focused on highlighting evidence-based best practices for children who are blind or visually impaired, complete with the research supporting each practice. While trying to compile research evidence that would support what I considered to be best practices, I found that I had to eliminate several options, when no research support surfaced. My resulting frustration made me realize how seriously limited our research base is. One of the difficulties we face as researchers is that is it almost impossible to do any large-scale quantitative research with a population that is so extremely heterogeneous. As a field we need to encourage high-quality qualitative research utilizing case studies and single-subject design and perform more longitudinal research, which can be translated into guidance for practitioners. And the journal needs associate editors who feel comfortable working with articles that present this type of research for publication. Toward that end, I am pleased to have Steve LaGrow, from Massey University in New Zealand, with his expertise in single-subject research design, join our other associate editors, Carol Farrenkopf, from the Toronto District School Board, and Maureen Duffy, from Vision-Aware.org. Also, Robert Wall Emerson, from Western Michigan University, has joined the journal as a consulting editor for research. I am excited about joining this team, and I sincerely hope that I can maintain the journal with the same integrity and quality as Dr. Geruschat. As I step into his gargantuan shoes, I welcome readers' thoughts concerning JVIB. You can reach me at . DIANE P. WORMSLEY, PH.D. EDITOR IN CHIEF A Note to Readers: This issue of JVIB marks a transition in leadership from Dr. Duane R. Geruschat to Dr. Diane P. Wormsley as editor in chief of the journal. Dr. Geruschat, who began his role as editor in chief 2005, has had a long association with JVIB. He served two terms as a member of its Editorial Advisory Board--from 1992 to 1997 and again in 2002 to 2004--when he was named associate editor for JVIB. In addition, he was guest editor, along with Dr. Anne Corn, of the 2004 JVIB Special Issue on Low Vision and the guest editor of the 1993 Special Issue on Residential Schools as well. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.105
Threshold uncertainty score0.722

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.106
GPT teacher head0.498
Teacher spread0.392 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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