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Record W3092940301

Why Do Students Drop Out of UTSC?

2020· report· en· W3092940301 on OpenAlexfundaboutno aff
Olivia Bernard, Mark Hunter, Frankie Leung

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2020
Typereport
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHigher Education Research Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of Toronto ScarboroughSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Toronto
KeywordsDrop (telecommunication)Drop outComputer scienceEconomicsDemographic economics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Undertaken by students and faculty, this study asks why students drop out of the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). It highlights three interconnected reasons: 1) Anti-black racism, with the study finding that Black students are more likely than others to associate leaving with negative experiences with faculty and staff; 2) Institutional Failure, with the study finding that around half of the students who left UTSC had enrolled in another institution of higher education, sometimes reporting this as more welcoming; 3) Economic and Cultural Inequalities, with the study finding that participants undertook more than seventeen hours of paid work per week. The report calls attention to the fact that UofT does not collect race-based data on students that can shed light on these and other systematic patterns of disadvantage.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.811
Threshold uncertainty score0.376

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

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 head0.128
GPT teacher head0.549
Teacher spread0.422 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2020
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