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Record W3036385013 · doi:10.24908/pceea.vi0.14182

SIX DEGREES OF CHEM & BACON

2020· article· en· W3036385013 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicProblem and Project Based Learning
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersUniversity of Waterloo
KeywordsWorkloadGrading (engineering)Graduation (instrument)Class (philosophy)Mathematics educationCourse (navigation)Point (geometry)Computer scienceReflection (computer programming)MultimediaEngineeringPsychologyMathematicsMechanical engineeringArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Some courses are just not of interest to some students but are nonetheless important to their education as engineers. First-year chemistry for engineers has been shown to be one such course; student exit surveys at graduation indicate that students from some programs didn’t see how the course connected to their program or into their careers as engineers [1]. Gamification is a popular technique where game elements, like point systems, are integrated into a course structure to motivate student learning and participation [2]. In the offering of this first-year chemistry course in the summer of 2019, the instructor applied gamification techniques in the course design. The major changes to the course structure included the ability to “unlock” an alternate grading scheme if at least five of seven tasks were completed, at least three of which were the completion of a “Six Degrees of Chem & Bacon” challenge. These challenges required the students to think about a core topic in the course module and find a practical application from their discipline of engineering. The experiences of the instructor and a student in the Spring 2019 class are shared here. The big take-aways are 1) to consider the benefits of reflection in learning, and 2) to consider the workload, both of the students and of the teaching team, when adding this type of activity to a course.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.727
Threshold uncertainty score0.989

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.224 · 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