Ready for School? Lessons from a Sociohistorical Investigation into Mechanisms of Preparation and Classification of Children for Primary School from 1911 to 1979
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In January 2013, the Quebec Ministry of Education announced the expansion of prekindergarten for four-year-olds. Half-day prekindergarten programs have existed since 1970 in the province, but only in "disadvantaged neighborhoods" within a limited number of school boards. The new, expanded system would implement full-day prekindergarten in at least one school within a "disadvantaged neighborhood" in every school board. This expansion was framed by the government as a crucial pillar in the fight against school dropouts, though the reasons for not offering this service to all children were not explained in official documents (MELS, 2013). The outcry against this policy focused on a debate about where children fare best: early childhood education (ECE) centers or prekindergarten classes, with arguments that ECE provides better quality, ratios, and developmentally appropriate practice than prekindergarten classes (CASIOPE, 2013; Duval & Bouchard, 2013; Moreau, 2013).KeywordsEarly Childhood EducationSchool BoardKindergarten TeacherSchool ReadinessPoor ChildThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".