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Record W4309461308 · doi:10.36366/frontiers.v34i4.496

International Education or Colonial Tourism? Measuring Tools and Standards for Evaluating International Education

2022· article· en· W4309461308 on OpenAlex
David Lempert

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Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Educational Policies and Reforms
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of Toronto
KeywordsScrutinyPolitical scienceInternational educationTourismEquity (law)Higher educationEducational equityHumanitiesPedagogyLibrary scienceSociologyLaw

Abstract

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This article applies a recently published indicator to various types of international education projects to measure their compliance with educational professionalism and international development law and also compares this indicator with the standards checklist currently in use by The Forum on Education Abroad. The tests and comparisons suggest that no existing standards hold international education to any real scrutiny, allowing many programs: 1) to degenerate into the equivalent of for-profit travel programs with little real educational content or intellectual challenge to students and 2) to promote colonialism rather than equity and development meeting international legal standards. The author shows how indicators can be extended to improve education abroad programs assessment on dimensions of professionalism and appropriate impact on developing countries under international law and also points to some of the many niches or gaps in education abroad that remain to be filled. Abstract in Spanish Este artículo aplica un indicador recientemente publicado a varios tipos de proyectos de educación internacional para medir su cumplimiento de la profesionalidad educativa y la ley de desarrollo internacional, y también compara este indicador con la lista de comprobación de normas que utiliza actualmente The Forum on Education Abroad (el Foro sobre la Educación en el Extranjero). Las pruebas y comparaciones sugieren que ninguna de las normas existentes somete a la educación internacional a un escrutinio real, lo que permite que muchos programas 1) degeneren en el equivalente a programas de viajes con fines de lucro con poco contenido educativo real o desafío intelectual para los estudiantes y 2) promuevan el colonialismo en lugar de la equidad y el desarrollo cumpliendo las normas legales internacionales. El autor muestra cómo pueden ampliarse los indicadores para mejorar la evaluación de los programas de educación en el extranjero en cuanto a las dimensiones de profesionalidad e impacto adecuado en los países en desarrollo según el derecho internacional y también señala algunos de los muchos nichos o lagunas de la educación en el extranjero que quedan por cubrir. Abstract in German In diesem Artikel wird ein kürzlich veröffentlichter Indikator auf verschiedene Arten von internationalen Bildungsprojekten angewandt, um deren Übereinstimmung mit der pädagogischen Professionalität und dem internationalen Entwicklungsrecht zu messen, und dieser Indikator wird mit der derzeit vom Forum on Education Abroad verwendeten Checkliste für Standards verglichen. Die Tests und Vergleiche deuten darauf hin, dass keine der bestehenden Standards die internationale Bildung einer wirklichen Prüfung unterziehen, so dass viele Programme: 1) zu einem Äquivalent für gewinnorientierte Reiseprogramme mit wenig echten Bildungsinhalten oder intellektuellen Herausforderungen für die Studierenden zu verkommen und 2) Kolonialismus fördern, aber nicht Gerechtigkeit und Entwicklung sowie die internationalen Rechtsstandards entsprechen. Der Autor zeigt, wie Indikatoren erweitert werden können, um die Bewertung von Bildungsprogrammen im Ausland in Bezug auf Professionalität und angemessene Auswirkungen auf Entwicklungsländer nach internationalem Recht zu verbessern, und weist auf einige der vielen Nischen oder Lücken im Bereich der Bildung im Ausland hin, die noch zu füllen sind.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.303
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
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 head0.047
GPT teacher head0.441
Teacher spread0.393 · 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