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Record W4382281385 · doi:10.4324/9781003446194-15

Virtual High School (Ontario)

2023· book-chapter· en· W4382281385 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Tools and Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceMathematics educationPsychology

Abstract

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In the spring of 1995 Stephen Baker, a staff member at Goderich District Collegiate Institute within the Huron County Board of Education (now the Avon-Maitland District School Board in Ontario, Canada), took a board-sponsored course on the fundamentals of HTML. The natural fit of education and the Internet was immediately apparent. In the fall of 1996 Baker used Notepad to construct an 11th-grade biology course, which was posted via wsFTP onto an Odyssey Network Inc. server housed in the back room of a jewelry store in Clinton, Ontario, under the https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://HuronWeb.com">HuronWeb.com domain (https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://WHOis.com">WHOis.com,n.d.-a). The biology online course was viewable to anyone connected to the Internet. In the spring of 1996 Baker posted a second course, Canadian Literature, written by John Smallwood. This course won a North American award for course development (Hall, 1997). On January 2, 1997, the fledgling school was moved to the https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://VirtualHighSchool.com">VirtualHighSchool.com domain ( https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://WHOis.com">WHOis.com, n.d.-b). During these early years, Baker pieced together a rudimentary learning management system (LMS) to run the two online courses, providing a log-in so that students could gain access to their courses, a secure testing site, and a rudimentary role structure for students, teachers, and administrators.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.710
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0530.005

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 head0.098
GPT teacher head0.375
Teacher spread0.278 · 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

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