Roots and Relations: Celebrating Good Medicine in Indigenous Evaluation
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Abstract
Koolamalsi/Taanishi/Welcome Relatives and Allies to the fi rst edition of Roots and Relations (R&R)!Th is inaugural issue is a vision come true!Th e purpose of the R&R journey is to honour our lineage, grow our kinship, and sustain our intergenerational legacies of Indigenous wisdom and practices in evaluation.R&R will sacredly hold and protect traditional knowledge, respect and assert sovereignty, provide a nurturing space for Indigenous voices, and celebrate Indigenous innovations in evaluation.Th e submissions in this section will use a cultural lens which aligns with one or more of the four doors on the Medicine Wheel (Waapalaneexkweew and Dodge-Francis, 2018).• Eastern Door-Be a Good Relative .Th e Eastern Door represents being in good relations within ourselves and with each other.It represents community context and diverse ways of thinking and being and honours the many Indigenous pathways and experiences of the contributors.Th is door refl ects traditional, cultural, and spiritual ways of knowing as a process whereby, fi rst, we respectfully listen and seek to understand and then decide on the best pathways together.• Southern Door-Be of Good Mind .Th e Southern Door awakens, roots, and centres pre-contact and post-contact Indigenous and community-centred and community-created knowledge and practices that are restorative, regenerative, and strengths-based.Th ey protect the privacy and respect the sovereignty of Indigenous nations related to data, as well as cultural, intellectual, human, and non-human infl uences on scholarship.• Western Door-Do Good Work .Th e Western Door supports the development of culturally specifi c responsive and regenerative strategies, studies, policies, processes, and work products that align with the need for healthy, reciprocal, respectful, and relevant Indigenous approaches to evaluation.Th e Western Door also provides a place to share developmental and impactful innovative theories, models, policies, and other strategies being tested and/or utilized by culturally grounded Indigenous scholars, practitioners, and warriors.• Northern Door-Be on a Good Journey .Th e Northern Door uses the wisdom of our Ancestors and Elders to be grounded in traditional
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.067 | 0.071 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.066 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.028 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.018 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".