Using guided constructive play to enhance instructional support in 4-year-old preschool classes
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Abstract
The objective of this article is to study the effects of guided constructive play on Instructional Support quality in 4-year-old preschool classes in comparison with free constructive play (i.e. without teaching support). We used an experimental research design with pre and posttest and a control group. Fifteen preschool classes of 4-year-old children in Quebec participated in the study. They were assigned to a control group (n = 7) and an experimental group (n = 8), in which teachers participated in an eight-week intervention on guided constructive play. Data were collected using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System Pre-K. The data were analyzed by mixed repeated-measures ANOVAs and paired t-tests. The results show a statistically significant difference between the pre- and posttest Instructional Support scores, as they increased in the guided play condition. These findings underline the importance of teachers’ support during playtime periods in preschool, specially when children play in the block area.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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