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The Hidden Purpose of Repeating a Grade

2008· article· en· W2617448283 on OpenAlex

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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

VenueEducation et societes · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation Methods and Practices
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRepetition (rhetorical device)LegitimacyAutonomyConstruct (python library)FrenchIrrational numberPolitical scienceOrder (exchange)PedagogySociologyLawGeographyBusinessPoliticsLinguistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The relative pedagogical ineffectiveness of repetition to remedy academic difficulties during compulsory schooling has already been demonstrated. There have been movements against non-repetition for about fifteen years in France, Canada (Quebec), Switzerland, in the canton of Geneva, and in Francophone Belgium. This paper focuses on the resistance they have met. It presents a case from a reform of early high school education in Francophone Belgium that is typical of the gap between objectives and achievements, in terms of the fight against repetition. The relative failure of this reform shows how much teachers remain attached to repetition. Its author refuses to reduce this attachment to a conservative or irrational reaction on the part teachers and argues that the legitimacy of repetition in their eyes relates to the latent functions it fulfills within the school system (regulation of the school order, professional autonomy, position of schools, and management of heterogeneity). Finally, he underlines how important it is to construct conditions favorable to change in education, which implies a pragmatic understanding of reality as experienced by actors on the ground and taking account of the institutional obstacles to change.

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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)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.646
Threshold uncertainty score0.955

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.115
GPT teacher head0.481
Teacher spread0.365 · 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