Reimagining Science and Technology Education in the COVID-19 Portal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched almost every corner of the planet and continues to impact on lives, livelihoods, economies and cultures.It is both a human and a global phenomenon.Making sense of what is happening requires an understanding of a number of scientific ideas including viruses, transmission, incubation and vaccination.These are life and death issues and yet the public and their political leaders often display a deliberate mistrust of the science and scientists.How might the science education community respond?We pose a series of questions designed to provoke a strong response to COVID-19 from our community and our colleagues: "How well has the science curriculum prepared the world's public for COVID-19?";"How much science education should be online from now on?";"Are we learning from the current situation?";"Is science education research producing knowledge that protects society from catastrophic events?";"How should our working practices change to make science education more resilient, more useful and more transparent?";"What are the ethics and politics of social distancing and how do they affect science education?";"What pedagogies might we need to turn to in the future?";and, "What role should business and industry play in funding science education research and development?"In our attempt to stimulate the development of a vision for science education in the postpandemic era, we offer initial thoughts about moving forward.What we offer is a departure point, an invitation for the community to engage with pressing issues in science education.The main question we pose is the following: What can be done, and what can be done differently?We envision that this paper will provide some guidance to the readers to re-think the complex systems and socio-political contexts within which people come to learn and practice science and to conceptualize these processes through a social justice lens.We argue that a social justice informed approach towards shaping a vision for science education in the post-pandemic era is of paramount importance and that failure to do so will only serve as a way of perpetuating existing inequalities.
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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 | 0.011 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.021 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.090 | 0.013 |
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".