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Record W4382281385 · doi:10.4324/9781003446194-15

Virtual High School (Ontario)

2023· book-chapter· en· W4382281385 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John Smallwood, Jennifer Reaburn, Stephen Baker

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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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.575
Threshold uncertainty score0.606

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0140.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.5750.220

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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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