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Record W4410347259 · doi:10.1177/10526846251343345

Understanding Administrators’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Gender-Inclusive Washroom Design at a Canadian Secondary School: A Case Study

2025· article· en· W4410347259 on OpenAlexaffabout
Lindsay J. McCunn, M. L. Robinson, Darryl Condon

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of School Leadership · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPublic Spaces through Art
Canadian institutionsGolder Associates (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerceptionSpace (punctuation)VisibilityPsychologySocial psychologyPedagogyPublic relationsPolitical scienceGeographyComputer science

Abstract

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This case study of a Canadian secondary school captures teachers’ and school administrators’ perceptions of a recently-constructed gender-inclusive washroom. Questions about employees’ perceptions of the washroom with respect to its location, amount (and importance) of visibility from common areas, and whether students understand the space as safe and socially inclusive were asked. Employees do not feel as though the new washroom has been a success. Its location is perceived to be too far from common areas and classrooms where a sense of surveillance may curb bullying and general misuse of the space. Design features that appear to be for social use have been confusing for some students and have promoted inappropriate behaviours in the setting. Despite this, students and employees believe that the intention of the washroom’s design was positive and that its flaws have initiated helpful conversations about diverse needs and the importance of respect among the school community.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.120
Threshold uncertainty score0.385

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0310.012
Scholarly communication0.0070.002
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.300
GPT teacher head0.384
Teacher spread0.084 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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