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Record W2562446041

Under the Knife: Animal Dissection as a Contested School Science Activity

2009· article· en· W2562446041 on OpenAlex
Jan Oakley

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.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal for Activist Science and Technology Education · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicAnimal and Plant Science Education
Canadian institutionsLakehead University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOpposition (politics)Dissection (medical)Context (archaeology)Engineering ethicsEnvironmental ethicsSociologyPolitical scienceEpistemologyMedicineLawEngineeringHistoryPoliticsPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article offers a review of recent research literature that discusses opposition to dissection in the context of North American school science classes. The arguments against dissection are divided into four themes: social concerns, animal-focused ethical concerns, pedagogical concerns, and health and environmental concerns. In discussing these dimensions of the dissection debate, this article outlines dominant concerns associated with dissection and argues for a critical reconsideration of the practice.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.874
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.381
Teacher spread0.359 · 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