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Record W2800730971 · doi:10.3138/cras.2017.024

Graduate Education and Humanities Crisis

2018· article· en· W2800730971 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Leanne M. Horinko

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Critical Thinking Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDisciplineGraduate educationCurriculumJob marketPedagogyHigher educationSociologyAction (physics)Political scienceGraduate studentsHumanitiesEngineering ethicsSocial scienceLawArtEngineeringWork (physics)

Abstract

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As colleges and universities struggle to meet students’ needs for education and career preparation, the humanities and graduate education are called into question. Recent works by Leonard Cassuto, Paul Jay, and Julie Posselt explore concerns in humanities studies and graduate education, and serve as a collective call to action for educators to rethink current practices. Drawing on recurring themes of problematic curriculum, overspecialization, and a diminished job market, these authors examine ongoing debates, areas of concern, and flawed systems of preparation in higher education. In doing so, they emphasize the need for student-centred instruction focused on skill building and public engagement, as well as a need to review and rethink current practices in higher education within disciplinary boundaries and graduate education.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
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: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.121
Threshold uncertainty score0.240

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0070.023
Scholarly communication0.0080.007
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0040.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.097
GPT teacher head0.410
Teacher spread0.313 · 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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