Bibliographic record
Abstract
This symposium session is a tribute to life and work of Dr. Thomas David Oakland, professor emeritus of the College of Education at the University of Florida. Tom was president of the International Test Commission from 1998-2001 and received numerous awards for his work in international testing, including Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of Psychology Internationally from the American Psychological Association and Outstanding International Scholar Award from the International School Psychology Association. He was a productive author editing 12 books, over 200 chapters and articles, and 11 psychological tests. His last cv listed accomplishments over 145 pages. Tom’s later work on temperament assessment exemplified the international flavor of his research in which he collaborated with colleagues to obtain responses from samples in Australia, China, Costa Rica, Gaza, Nigeria, Philippines, United States, and Zimbabwe. What probably isn’t as well known is that Tom had a career that was multifaceted. He was not only an accomplished researcher, but excellent clinician, faculty member, department chair, organization president (multiple times), editor, father, and husband. Above and beyond everything else, Tom strove to be excellent in every project he undertook, but would characterize his accomplishments as simply being “competent”. Five presenters will discuss the various dimensions of his work which has as its core “international testing”: Dr. Barbara Byrne , Professor Emerita Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa barbara.byrne@uottawa.ca Dr. Kurt Geisinger , Director Buros Center for Testing and W.C. Meierhenry Distinguished Professor University of Nebraska—Lincoln kgeisinger2@unl.edu Dr. Ron Hambleton , Director Center for Educational Assessment and Distinguished University Professor University of Massachusetts Amherst rkh@educ.umass.edu Dr. Dragos Iliescu , Professor Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences University of Bucharest dragos.iliescu@fpse.unibuc.ro Dr. Mark D. Shermis , Dean and Professor School of Education, University of Houston - Clear Lake mshermis@gmail.com
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.077 | 0.051 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".