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Reflective Practice for Language Teachers

2018· other· en· W2919174799 on OpenAlexaff
Thomas S. C. Farrell

Bibliographic record

VenueThe TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching · 2018
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReflective Practices in Education
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReflective practicePsychologyPedagogySubject (documents)Mathematics educationProfessional developmentTeaching methodWork (physics)Computer scienceEngineering

Abstract

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Reflective practice occurs when teachers consciously take on the role of reflective practitioner and subject their own beliefs about teaching and learning to critical analysis, take full responsibility for their actions in the classroom, and continue to improve their teaching practice. Teachers who engage in reflective practice can develop a deeper understanding of their teaching, assess their professional growth, develop informed decision‐making skills, and become proactive and confident in their teaching. There are many different ways teachers can reflect on their work, such as individual or group, as well as different issues teachers can reflect on such as teaching metaphors and maxims and teaching beliefs. Teachers can decide which method would be most beneficial to them depending on the purposes of their reflections.

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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)0.031
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.114
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.166

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0310.114
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0040.022
Scholarly communication0.0210.017
Open science0.0030.011
Research integrity0.0090.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.022

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.383
Teacher spread0.369 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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