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Record W4293163263 · doi:10.51952/9781447345527.ch007

Using evidence in education

2019· book-chapter· en· W4293163263 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenuePolicy Press eBooks · 2019
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicEducational Assessment and Improvement
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDisadvantagedMainstreamCompulsory educationEquity (law)Context (archaeology)Political scienceSociologyEconomic growthPedagogyGeographyLawEconomics

Abstract

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This chapter considers the nature of evidence in education and discusses the effectiveness with which it is produced, shared and used within and across different elements of the system. It focuses on mainstream school education – that is, the system that supports children and young people though their years of compulsory school learning. It is based primarily on the English context, but also includes illustrations and developments from other UK countries. It also provides some comparative illustrations from the province of Ontario in Canada, which has a relatively well-developed system supporting educational evidence use in policy and practice. Education is compulsory in England from the ages of five to 18 (a young person must remain in some form of learning, either academic or work based, between the ages of 16 and 18). Education is a critical gateway to young people securing economic independence in adulthood, progressing in their careers and ambitions and contributing to society as effective citizens. Education has an essential role to play in creating the conditions for social mobility and equity by enabling young people to reach their full academic and personal potential and by reducing economic and social inequality. Yet there remains a stubborn and persistent ‘attainment gap’ between young people from affluent and disadvantaged backgrounds, which typically widens as they progress through their school careers (see, for example, Andrews et al, 2017). In terms of evidence, there is much that is not yet fully understood about how best to support every child to succeed, although, as we outline later, the evidence base is improving.

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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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.644
Threshold uncertainty score0.919

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.560
GPT teacher head0.528
Teacher spread0.032 · 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