High School is Over … Now What? Examining Students Plans for After High School
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Abstract
A new group of Grade12 students graduates from high school each year. This is an important time for young adults because they must make decisions for what life after high school will look like. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to investigate what decisions students in Alberta are making for after high school, and (b) to examine how such decisions are linked to students’ motivation in the form of underlying causality orientations as articulated by self-determination theory (SDT). A total of 237 Grade 12 students responded to a survey with closed and open-ended questions about their plans for after high school. The results showed that all participants had some type of plan for after high school, with 79% planning to pursue post-secondary education. Their reasons could be categorized by causality orientation theory (COT) and revealed differences in reasons between students bound for post-secondary and those not. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research and avenues to aid students in their decision-making process during high school. Keywords: High School; Motivation; Transitions; Students; Causality Orientation Theory Chaque année, un nouveau groupe d'élèves de 12e année obtient son diplôme d'études secondaires. Il s'agit d'une période importante pour les jeunes adultes, car ils doivent prendre des décisions sur ce à quoi ressemblera leur vie après le secondaire. L'objectif de cette étude était double : (a) enquêter sur les décisions que les élèves de l'Alberta prennent relatives à leur vie après le secondaire, et (b) examiner le lien entre ces décisions et la motivation des élèves sous la forme d'orientations de causalité sous-jacentes telles qu'articulées par la théorie de l'autodétermination (TAD). Au total, 237 élèves de 12e année ont répondu à une enquête comportant des questions fermées et ouvertes portant sur leurs projets après leurs études secondaires. Les résultats ont montré que tous les participants avaient un certain type de plan après leurs études secondaires, 79 % d'entre eux prévoyant de poursuivre des études postsecondaires. Leurs raisons ont pu être catégorisées par la théorie de l'orientation de la causalité (COT) et ont révélé des différences de raisons entre les étudiants destinés à des études postsecondaires et ceux qui ne le sont pas. L'article se termine par des suggestions de recherches futures et des pistes pour aider les élèves dans leur processus de prise de décision au cours de leurs études secondaires. Mots clés : école secondaire ; motivation ; transitions ; élèves; théorie de l'orientation de la causalité
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
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".