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Making DPA Happen: Educators’ Experiences and Contributing Factors

2017· article· en· W2610794003 on OpenAlex
Sierra Dziadura

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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

VenueTSpace (University of Toronto) · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Educational Reforms and Inequalities
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic relationsPsychologySociologyPedagogyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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This Masters of Teaching research project is a response to the concerning state of the
\nDaily Physical Activity (DPA) policy in Ontario elementary schools. This qualitative study is
\nguided by the following question: what are the personal, professional, and educational factors
\nand experiences that contribute to elementary teachers’ commitment and competence in meeting the DPA policy requirements in their classrooms? A review of the literature explains why the DPA initiative was developed, raises questions about the current success of DPA implementation in the classroom and points to the need for further research that explores the factors that facilitate policy delivery. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two Ontario educators and analyzed. Overarching themes that emerged included participants’ reliance on segregated DPA time, and their use of online and personal resources to plan their DPA activities. Findings also revealed that participants emphasized the positive psycho-emotional benefits of DPA over its physical benefits for both themselves and their students. Further, personal factors, such as commitment to a fitness lifestyle, were more significant to their competence in meeting the DPA requirement than professional or educational factors. The results of this study suggest that although educational and professional development in the area of Health and Physical Education is an asset, it is not imperative to successful DPA implementation, and that although the Ministry’s implementation suggestions are well grounded in educational research, they may not be as practical or applicable in practice. Furthermore, this study informed my own personal practice as a beginning teacher by inspiring me to continue my fitness journey and allowing it to be reflected in my teaching.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.402
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

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 studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.057
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.297 · 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