Bibliographic record
Abstract
This issue (57:1) signals the shift of AJER from a print publication to a journal that is published only online.It is hard to imagine that the first Editor of AJER, Herbert E. Smith, might have envisaged this move some 56 years ago, but it has now eventuated.Indeed, as recently as four years ago it was suggested that there would be no move to dispense with the paper-based journal.Yet, here we are and the paper publication of the journal has ceased.There are sure to be mixed feelings about this change.I remember the satisfaction of holding the paper copy of the journal in which my first article was published in 1994.A journal "in my world" at that time was received in the mail, searched for (sometimes for hours, and often in many possible locations) on library shelves, dog-eared, annotated, and eventually put in a safe place for protection and future reference.If you lost your copy of a journal you might have to wait some time to get a replacement, and it would not be nearly as easy as going to a website and re-accessing it as is the case today.Many of us have shelves full of paper issues of journals.However, it seems like such collections may be fast becoming a reflection of times past.The world of publishing is certainly changing, as evidenced by more and more journals moving to on-line delivery and the sales of eBooks beginning to challenge those of traditional books.It is hard to predict what the future holds for academic publishing.However, there is no doubt that more and more scholars anticipate that their journal and book libraries will be increasingly housed on hard-drives and/or remote servers.Subscribers often expect immediate access to scholarly works.This is no longer the way of the future.It is the way of today.This first on-line issue of AJER has been planned for some time, and is now a reality.While we note the move from paper-based to on-line delivery of AJER, the function of the journal remains the same: to publish original, high quality research and scholarship in the field of education that has been subject to stringent peer-review.This issue of the journal bears testimony to the continued pursuit and fulfillment of this mission.Recent times have witnessed a marked increase in the number of journals in educational research.Some have been established to attend to diverse interests of scholars who considered that the existing outlets were not empathetic to or welcoming of their work.Others have been established to enable scholars to publish in particular language/s.Still others have been established to provide publishing opportunities for special interest and/or regional groups.In this world of substantial changes in publishing AJER will remain, "devoted to the dissemination, criticism, interpretation, and encouragement of all forms of systematic enquiry into education and fields related to or associated with education."This is our commitment to our authors and readership.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.057 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.016 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.086 | 0.064 |
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".