Views from the University of Waterloo School of Optometry on Meeting with the Manpower Needs of the Future
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The University of Waterloo continues to be the major source of optometrists for all provinces in Canada except Quebec and the student body is recruited from all provinces including Quebec. The pool of candidates for admittance remains high (300-400) and of an academic calibre that is increasing annually. Up to half the incoming students have B.Sc. or higher degrees and this year only two candidates with a single year of University have been offered positions, reflecting the trend in recent years. We continue to seek academically well-qualified students with broad interests and excellent interpersonal skills. With such a large pool it is possible to select these and attrition has been low with the loss or failure of only a handful of students. Unfortunately many well-qualified candidates are not admitted indicating that there will be no shortage of students for a third Canadian school.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.143 | 0.030 |
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".