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Record W4317460359 · doi:10.4324/9780203125526-112

Making Perfect? - Form and Structure in Teaching Practice

2021· book-chapter· en· W4317460359 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David Hopkins

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTeacher Education and Leadership Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPracticumPsychologyClass (philosophy)Mathematics educationAnxietyPedagogyQuality (philosophy)Student teacherMedical educationTeacher educationMedicineComputer science

Abstract

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The old adage tells us that ‘practice makes perfect’. In particular, the nature of the teaching practice, the quality of supervision and the role of the teacher in whose class the student is placed. In North America in general and in Canada in particular, one of the major innovations in teacher education during the 1970s was the introduction of the extended practicum. The term ‘practicum’ refers to that period of time student teachers spend in the classroom observing and practising teaching. There was an initial spate of studies that related a student’s practicum experience to scores on self concept tests. Studies before 1969 claimed that the practicum was associated with lowered professional self concept and undesirably high levels of teaching anxiety. Although teacher tutors are appointed in some schools their role tends to be ill-defined and equivocal. The primary emphasis in clinical supervision is on the improvement of the student teachers instructional performance.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.023
Scholarly communication0.0070.007
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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 head0.169
GPT teacher head0.432
Teacher spread0.263 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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