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Geography Education: Fieldwork and Contemporary Pedagogy

2018· other· en· W2900302835 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Encyclopedia of Geography · 2018
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeography Education and Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsOkanagan College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFormative assessmentExperiential learningEquity (law)PedagogyWork (physics)SociologyMathematics educationPsychologyEngineeringPolitical science

Abstract

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Geographers have taken a leading role in post‐secondary pedagogic innovation, and this is reflected in a rapidly evolving landscape of teaching and learning within the discipline. Lectures used to involve the transmission of information from the lecturer to the student but are now much more interactive, with multimedia, student discussions, interactive exercises, and formative assessment based on “clickers.” Practical and laboratory work is now much more relevant than formerly, with the use of real datasets and less emphasis on repetitive calculations. Fieldwork is still important and safety issues are taken seriously, but equity, risk, and legal liabilities have discouraged some departments and instructors. In contrast, signature pedagogies, including experiential and service learning, along with undergraduate research and inquiry, have seen growth. Textbooks are moving into electronic formats that allow them to be more closely integrated into active learning.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.350
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.000

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.340
Teacher spread0.326 · 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