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Record W4407070145 · doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101289

Who transitions into post-secondary education and why? A systematic review of the Canadian landscape

2025· review· en· W4407070145 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Alexandra Pulchny, Karen Robson, Robert S. Brown

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Sciences & Humanities Open · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation Systems and Policy
Canadian institutionsYork UniversityMcMaster University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSystematic reviewGeographyEnvironmental planningPolitical scienceMEDLINE

Abstract

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Decades of research have documented rates of student transitions into post-secondary education (PSE). A large majority of secondary students expect to obtain some level of PSE and are either motivated by their own personal interest, parental influences, or economic reasons. In 2020, The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that Canada had an 86% secondary graduation rate. The percentage of those students who transitioned directly into post-secondary institutions is unclear, as enrolment rates can include direct and delayed entry. Using systematic review methods and reflective thematic analysis, we identified trends in the literature that cite family influences geographic influences, sex, various school influences, and race and ethnicity as key impacts on students’ decisions to transition to PSE.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.650
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0020.000
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 head0.082
GPT teacher head0.430
Teacher spread0.348 · 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 designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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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Citations2
Published2025
Admission routes3
Has abstractyes

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