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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ONTARIO'S population has come to know two important things about the recreational habits of Premier Mike Harris. First, he loves to golf. Second, he views taunting teachers as at least as much fun as hitting the links. Spring is in the air, and Harris is about to prove he is in fine form, ready to resume both of his favorite pastimes. One of Harris' more controversial 1999 campaign promises was to implement the competency testing of every practicing teacher in the province. Timed as it was in the midst of furious antigovernment campaigning by Ontario's four teacher unions, this announcement, however innocuously worded, came off sounding more like a threat than a promise. Consider this brief excerpt from a letter written by Janet Ecker, minister of education, to the Ontario College of Teachers, dated 10 November 1999. In a rapidly changing world, we have an obligation to ensure that students receive the highest quality education and that teachers maintain their certification by having current skills and knowledge. In order to accomplish this, the Ontario government has made a commitment to require teachers to participate in a teacher testing program. Curious journalists asked about the costs, content, and consequences of testing more than 100,000 teachers, but the premier refused ' or, more likely, was unable ' to elaborate. Harris' vague responses gave pundits and humorists license to imagine some inventive approaches to assessing teacher quality, Tory style. Linwood Barclay, whose career as a political satirist has benefited immensely from a recent abundance of raw material, devised a set of test questions to reflect the spirit of the times. Teachers of the arts, he suggested, should answer the following: Since Ontario needs to remain a leader in turning out composers of elevator music and imaginative writers to draft ministry press releases, prepare a lesson on one of the following that would demonstrate the close relationship between arts and the economy: a) tell the story of the Toronto Stock Exchange through interpretive dance, b) mount a musical version of the Common Sense Revolution [the Tory slogan], c) make the case for charter schools through finger-painting.1 A high school teacher told the Ottawa Citizen that he was also prepared to assist the government with the tough job ahead of it. One of his questions deals with communication skills for high school teachers: 'True or false: arguing with an adolescent is like mud wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig loves it. Explain.'2 As the provincial election campaign heated up, it soon became apparent that teacher testing was no joke. Polling showed strong public support for testing teachers, especially when pollsters' questions emphasized the end rather than the means, as in 'Would you favor testing to ensure that every Ontario teacher is competent?' Once elected ' and holding its second majority government ' the Harris Administration began to move ahead with the education reforms that had caused chaos during its first go-round, including budget cuts, school board amalgamation, an end to local taxation, and new curricula for everybody and everything. Following the election, the government was peppered with increasingly pointed questions about exactly how teacher testing would be implemented. Faced with the very real complexities of carrying out the plan, not just selling it, the government suddenly announced that the Ontario College of Teachers would be the body responsible for devising the tests, and the College was instructed to implement them by June 2000. Created during the first Tory mandate to 'govern the profession in the public interest,' the Ontario College of Teachers made no secret of the fact that it was miffed that the government's teacher-testing proposal had not been vetted with the College before commitments were made. Eager to be perceived as the font of all intellectual rigor and political impartiality, the College did not want its name associated with a quick-fix project like teacher testing. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it