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How Universal Design for Learning Transformed My Teaching

2023· book-chapter· en· W4401325483 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jana Nicol

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvances in educational technologies and instructional design book series · 2023
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDisability Education and Employment
Canadian institutionsEducation and Early Childhood Development
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUniversal Design for LearningMathematics educationComputer sciencePsychology

Abstract

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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a summary of research and recommendations for implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the elementary school setting through a review of the literature (2016 – 2021), one teacher's account of UDL implementation with elementary school-aged students (K-5) in a fully inclusive public education system in New Brunswick, Canada, and the findings of action research undertaken through a partnership between the New Brunswick Department of Education & Early Childhood Development (EECD) and University of New Brunswick (2013 – 2015). The goal of the action research was to determine what tools will help facilitate the implementation of UDL in elementary school classrooms to improve student engagement. Implementing UDL in the elementary school setting results in observable gains in inclusion, student engagement, and academic achievement. Teachers can take a personalized and incremental approach to UDL implementation guided by CAST's UDL Guidelines.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
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 score0.564
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.043
GPT teacher head0.309
Teacher spread0.266 · 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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Published2023
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