Contested Classrooms: Education, Globalization, and Democracy in Alberta by Trevor Harrison and Jerrold Kachur (Eds.)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In recent years much educational reform has been imposed on Alberta by the Progressive Conservative government.Most reforms have been made in swift and deep strokes, attacking all areas of public education including governance, management, programming, and policy.Increased accountability and stan dards measures, privatization or elimination of educational support services, and excessive individualism have had, and continue to have, major implica tions on how schools proceed (Bruce & Schwartz, 1997).Some fragmentation of the public school system has become more apparent with the rise of charter schools, open boundary policies, and alternative educational initiatives (Fuller & Elmore, 1996).Success is often determined by market initiatives of "selling" the school's mandate and attracting potential desirable students (Chubb & Моє, 1990).Ineffective schools become entangled in a vicious circle of being unable to attract desirable students and receiving reduced funding because of declining enrollment (Labaree, 1997).In effect, collaboration and cooperation are muffled under the model of excessive individualism and competition fostered by the dominant economic and political discourse (Ball, 1994).
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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".