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Record W4232905498 · doi:10.24124/2008/bpgub1359

Support services for adult basic learner graduation: a case study

2008· dissertation· en· W4232905498 on OpenAlexaff
Kiley Sales

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCritical Realism in Sociology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Northern British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGraduation (instrument)AttendanceSituational ethicsIntervention (counseling)PsychologyMedical educationAdult educationService (business)PedagogyMedicineSocial psychologyEngineeringPolitical science

Abstract

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This case study attempted to isolate and recommend a network of the most effective wrap-around support services that impact time on learning and graduation as identified by adult learners enrolled in Quesnel, British Columbia's continuing and adult education Helen Dixon Centre. Research on deterrents to attendance and strategies for retention are reviewed. This research project focused on identfying institutional, dispositional, and situational deterrents by conducting face-to-face interviews of fifteen non-graduated students. Data analysis was conducted through a mixed method approach. The results revealed that situational barriers are prevalent for Quesnel's adult learners. A child minding service and a course in personal and professional development were suggested as intervention strategies by participants. The possible significance of the study in terms of what was learned, alternative explanations for results, implications, and recommendations are also discussed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.310
Threshold uncertainty score0.965

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.051
GPT teacher head0.425
Teacher spread0.374 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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