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Record W4387166345 · doi:10.1075/rmal.5.07ser

Direct observation of writing activity

2023· book-chapter· en· W4387166345 on OpenAlexaff
Jérémie Séror, Guillaume Gentil

Bibliographic record

VenueResearch methods in applied linguistics · 2023
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsCarleton UniversityUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcess (computing)The InternetReport writingEngineering ethicsWriting processComputer scienceData collectionData scienceEngineeringSociologyWorld Wide WebPedagogySocial science

Abstract

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Emerging technologies and the rise of internet-mediated writing spaces have contributed to the appearance of new forms of digital practices that have transformed writing and its development. These technologies also present important methodological opportunities for researchers interested in the study of writing processes and writing development. This chapter offers a critical overview of one such opportunity: the use of screen capture technologies (SCT) as a means of documenting and engaging in direct real-time observation of language learners’ digitally mediated writing activities. After a brief description of SCT, this chapter reviews the research questions explored and insights gleaned about writing processes and writing development with SCT. It then addresses the methodological challenges and potential solutions associated with the integration of SCT data within research projects in terms of research design, data collection, data analysis and reporting, and ethical considerations. The chapter concludes by suggesting some potential future avenues for writing process research enabled by the use of SCT.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.866
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
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 head0.513
GPT teacher head0.524
Teacher spread0.011 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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