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Record W4253370999 · doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7547.972

What the educators are saying

2006· article· en· W4253370999 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Phil Cotton, Jill Morrison

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInnovations in Medical Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCynicismPsychologyMedicinePolitical science

Abstract

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How much does it matter if students sitting clinical examinations, or being interviewed for medical school, are told about the content of the assessment by fellow students? Concern about “breaches of security” leads assessors to go to extreme lengths, such as keeping groups of candidates apart or frequently changing the content of the assessment. This may not be necessary. Three studies conducted at McMaster University, Canada, looked at the effect of defined violations of test security in a multiple mini-interview process on the outcome of student admissions. The first “leak” by a student about one of the tests was posted on a website within seven minutes of completing the test. Nevertheless, the authors found no differences in performance between students who had been informed by peers and those who had not. Medical Education 2006;40: 36–42 [OpenUrl][1][PubMed][2] A medical student addresses the thorny problem of the cynicism that affects students as they progress through their studies. This … [1]: {openurl}?query=rft.jtitle%253DMedical%2Beducation%26rft.stitle%253DMed%2BEduc%26rft.aulast%253DReiter%26rft.auinit1%253DH.%2BI.%26rft.volume%253D40%26rft.issue%253D1%26rft.spage%253D36%26rft.epage%253D42%26rft.atitle%253DThe%2Beffect%2Bof%2Bdefined%2Bviolations%2Bof%2Btest%2Bsecurity%2Bon%2Badmissions%2Boutcomes%2Busing%2Bmultiple%2Bmini-interviews.%26rft_id%253Dinfo%253Apmid%252F16441321%26rft.genre%253Darticle%26rft_val_fmt%253Dinfo%253Aofi%252Ffmt%253Akev%253Amtx%253Ajournal%26ctx_ver%253DZ39.88-2004%26url_ver%253DZ39.88-2004%26url_ctx_fmt%253Dinfo%253Aofi%252Ffmt%253Akev%253Amtx%253Actx [2]: /lookup/external-ref?access_num=16441321&link_type=MED&atom=%2Fbmj%2F332%2F7547%2F972.atom

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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)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.049
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.046
Threshold uncertainty score0.154

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.049
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.007
Scholarly communication0.0190.015
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0080.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0460.028

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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.359
Teacher spread0.339 · 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 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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