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Record W2527657511 · doi:10.33524/cjar.v17i2.258

ACCEPTING ACTION RESEARCH: SLOW & STEADY

2016· article· en· W2527657511 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Kurt W. Clausen

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Action Research · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicComplex Systems and Decision Making
Canadian institutionsNipissing University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSurpriseNoveltyAction (physics)Meaning (existential)Action researchAccountabilityBacklashPerceptionSociologyCritical mass (sociodynamics)Political sciencePsychologyPublic relationsSocial psychologySocial scienceLawPedagogyEngineering

Abstract

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For much of my career in the world of Action Research, I have seen this methodology’s fortunes rise and fall periodically depending on the vagaries of public perception and demands for accountability. For the past few years, therefore, after a steady growth in its stature in the academic community, I had been expecting the inevitable backlash I had seen in the past. To my surprise, this has not happened. Perhaps, this is due to the fact that action research is no longer seen as a novelty or fad among a critical mass of researchers anymore. Perhaps, people have become increasingly educated to its meaning and technique. I can only hope.

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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)0.071
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.030
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.420
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0710.030
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

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 head0.877
GPT teacher head0.617
Teacher spread0.260 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
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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