MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W250202155

Vulnerable Children and Youth.

2002· article· en· W250202155 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

VenueEducation Canada · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicFamily Support in Illness
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVulnerability (computing)PovertyEthnic groupPolitical sciencePsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Many Canadian children must cope with unduly negative life experiences, such as racial and ethnic prejudice, severe learning and behavior problems, inadequate parenting, family violence, and poverty. These children are vulnerable. They are children whose chances of leading healthy and productive lives are somewhat reduced unless there is a concerted and prolonged effort to intervene on their behalf. In 1994, Human Resources Development Canada, in cooperation with Statistics Canada, launched the National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth (NLSCY), a study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 Canadian children and their families. When the NLSCY data became available, I had the opportunity to work with scholars from across Canada in analysing the data to examine several questions concerning childhood vulnerability: How many children in Canada can be considered vulnerable? Where do the majority of them reside? Can we help them meet the difficult challenges they face, thereby significantly improving the quality of their lives? Can we provide avenues for success, so that more children will lead healthy, productive lives? Can we identify schools and local communities that are particularly successful in improving the life chances of vulnerable children, and determine what it is that they are doing differently? We brought the research findings together in an edited volume entitled, Vulnerable Children: Findings from Canada’s National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth which was published this spring by University of Alberta Press. A difficult task in this work was to define “vulnerable children”. The term “vulnerable” connotes susceptibility – that one is exposed, or liable to experience some undesirable life outcome in the future. Our definition was based on children’s cognitive and behavioural outcomes, rather than on “risk factors” that predict negative life outcomes. A child was considered vulnerable in the cognitive domain if he or she had a low score on a standardized test of motor and social development at ages 0 to 3, a low score on a test of receptive vocabulary at ages 4 and 5, or a low score on a standardized mathematics test at ages 6 to 11. Children were considered vulnerable in Vulnerable children and youth

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.170
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.244
Teacher spread0.228 · 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