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Record W3086679848 · doi:10.37514/per-b.2015.0674.2.31

A Cautionary Tale about a Writing Course for Schools

2015· book-chapter· en· W3086679848 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Kelly Peake, Sally Mitchell

Bibliographic record

VenueThe WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press eBooks · 2015
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMemorial University of NewfoundlandState University of New York
KeywordsCourse (navigation)Mathematics educationPsychologyEngineering

Abstract

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At the heart of an Academic Literacies approach is a concern with "transformation" and the "transformative."But what does this mean?How is "transformation" to be understood, and what does it look like when using an Academic Literacies lens to investigate and design writing practices in the academy?In this section, the book's editors each offer a perspective on these questions-but without a desire to close them down.We recognize that individual practitioner-researchers will define and work with the notion of transformation somewhat differently depending on their/our particular institutional and/or disciplinary positions and the specific questions they/we ask.An examination and elucidation of this contextual diversity is, indeed, one of the main aims of this volume. thereSa lilliS: toWardS tranSformative deSignAs a teacher, researcher and participant in contemporary academia I am involved in both working with(in) and against powerful conventions for meaning making and knowledge construction.I am committed to exploring what it is that prevailing academic conventions for meaning making have to offer-and to whom-and what it is they constrain or restrict.My concern (based on many years of teaching and researching) is that we-as teachers, researchers, writers, policy makers-may often adopt prevailing conventions, including those surrounding which specific Design rests on a chain of processes of which critique is one: it can, however, no longer be the focal one, or be the major goal of textual practices.Critique leaves the initial definition of the domain of analysis to the past, to past production.(Kress, 2000, p. 160) The question of design-or what I am referring to as "transformative design" in Andrew: So it's an excuse for, like, the government not intervening in causes of ill health, isn't it?Andrew's aha! moment isn't the end of the story however: I observed how much of the argument that had emerged collaboratively and antagonistically through the peer to peer discussion dropped out of the writing the students subsequently did (see Mitchell, 1995).What accounted for this disappearance?Was it control over the medium, the medium itself, the fact that the writing would be read and assessed by the teacher as part of working towards a public exam, a resultant reluctance to take risks?These kinds of question about "translation, how meaning gets moved, or does not …", about "intersubjectivity, how separate individuals come to conceive, or do not, reasonably similar things …" make clear that it was not possible thinking Jacobs, C. (

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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)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.039
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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.041

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.039
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.015
Scholarly communication0.0130.013
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0120.035
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.007

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 head0.103
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.199 · 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
GenreCommentary

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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