Into another "semiotic landscape": Evaluating models of multimodal literacy curricula for canadian art and design university students
Bibliographic record
Abstract
An art and design university is a particular kind of "semiotic landscape," comprised of teachers and students heavily invested in the difference that non-linguistic modes of expression make to meaning and human experience. Here both experienced and emerging creative practitioners experiment with the signifying possibilities of, for example, wood, light, movement, paint, clay, or digital media. Written English, as a mode of inquiry, research, and composition finds itself somewhat of an outsider in this landscape--at least more so than in a conventional university. It is from this outside territory of a writing pedagogue at an art and design university that the author's inquiry emerges. In this research, the author aims: (1) to identify, analyze, and assess models of multimodal pedagogy that have the potential for developing composition skill learning within the context of a liberal arts curriculum in a Canadian art and design university; and (2) to determine the contribution of art and design university-specific, multimodal pedagogy models to recent research in the fields of multimodal literacy, language and literacy education, and postsecondary writing pedagogy. The author juxtaposes an analysis of a sample of recently published American and Canadian composition instruction books that encourage multimodal literacy in the context of a postsecondary, language-based curriculum with an analysis of how multimodality is manifest in one area of the art and design curriculum at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), a Canadian art and design university. With respect to this juxtaposition, the author aims to discover how her sample multimodal curricula fits--or doesn't--with OCAD as a specific "semiotic landscape." By looking at student thesis work, the author tries to develop a provisional sketch of the nature of her home institution's "semiotic landscape." (Contains 5 figures and 5 endnotes.)
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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 | 0.008 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
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".