Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction Mediator competence is hotly debated in the mediation discourse. What qualifications and skills are required of mediators? What kind of training should mediators undergo? Should mediators be licensed like lawyers, doctors, and other professionals? In the United States, Canada, Australia, and many other states there are no legal requirements for the practice of mediation in private settings. Any person can practice mediation if he or she is acceptable to the parties. However, there is a requirement for qualifications in many mediation programs established by states, courts, and professional mediator organizations. Persons who wish to conduct mediations in connection with these programs and be on their list of mediators must meet minimum requirements that vary from program to program. Some programs set requirements according to the type of mediated cases, requiring general qualifications for civil cases and special qualifications for categories of cases such as family or divorce, child custody, or domestic violence. Court programs sometimes set requirements that vary in accordance with the court with which mediators are listed, be it a civil court, family court, superior court, or other. The qualifications required of mediators may include requirements for good character; X hours of approved mediation training (for example, 20 hours in Alabama, 30 hours in Minnesota, 38 hours according to the Australia National Mediator Accreditation System, 40 hours in Indiana, or 180 hours according to the ADR Canada Chartered Mediators Accreditation Program); being a licensed attorney with X years of practice of law (for example, 4 years in Alabama, or 5 years in North Carolina) or having a degree in certain fields (for example, psychology, accountancy, social work) with X years of practice; completing X hours of continuing education every X years; or an undertaking to provide X hours of pro bono mediation services to the public every X years. Developing requirements for mediator qualification, training courses, and continuing education programs is an important step in the process of professionalization. This chapter applies the lens of professional ethics to this issue. It begins with an explanation of the normative basis for a duty of mediator competence, and then explores the meaning of competence in view of the core definition of mediation and mediators’ role.
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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 | 0.012 | 0.043 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.205 | 0.072 |
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".