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Record W2596486121

CANADA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A CAUSAL ANALYSIS

2017· article· en· W2596486121 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Abigail M. Pierce, Eden Ambrose

Bibliographic record

VenueQSpace (Queen's University Library) · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorld War IICausal analysisPolitical scienceHistoryEconomicsLawEconometrics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The purpose of this document is to provide the teacher with a complete resource package of lessons, documents, and tools to implement within the classroom to educate their students on an overall expectation in the Ontario History Curriculum. Built upon the historical thinking concepts outlined in Peter Seixas and Tom Morton’s “The Big Six,” these lessons focus specifically on one of these concepts to engage students in inquiry based learning. Used together, these lessons tell a story about the devastating impact of World War II, and the heroic Canadian contributions to the war effort. During the first lesson, students will examine the social, political and economic conditions which resulted in the rise of the Nationalist Socialist Party in Germany. Students will put themselves in the position of the German people, and consider the conditions which influenced the people of Germany to elect Adolf Hitler and how these conditions influenced the rise of the National Socialist State. This lesson will address continuity and change throughout Germany in the years prior to 1939. In the second lesson, students will explore other key causes of the Second World War by examining primary source documents, such as the Treaty of Versailles. Through exploring the causes of the war, students will have a clearer understanding of the tumultuous path to war and the resulting battles that ensued. In the third lesson, students will learn about the role of Canadians in the battles which occurred on land, at sea and in the air. Students will explore key Canadian Battles in depth to understand how these historically significant battles helped shape the war and the Canadian identity. Lastly, students will learn about the contribution of Women to the Canadian war effort during WWII. By examining the war through the lens of women, students will be able to explore a unique perspective of WWII. Students will examine the many roles women took on during the war and learn about their changing position in society during this time. By completing this resource pack, students will have a rich understanding of the causes, and consequences of the Second World War. Students will have had the opportunity to explore a variety of primary source mediums and expand their critical thinking skills. This resource pack uses the Ontario Canadian and World Studies Curriculum to explore these topics and ensure they are being covered in a detailed manner. This resource pack will allow educators to use a variety of tools to engage learners and deepen their understanding of the Second World War.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.074
Threshold uncertainty score0.534

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.012
Science and technology studies0.0100.005
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0310.000

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 head0.005
GPT teacher head0.172
Teacher spread0.167 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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