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Record W4410780317 · doi:10.1186/s43031-025-00130-2

Children’s perspective-taking and decision-making on forests and land use

2025· article· en· W4410780317 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueDisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicAnimal and Plant Science Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSkepticismContext (archaeology)Environmental educationCurriculumPerspective (graphical)Focus groupDisciplineScientific literacyScience educationSociologyEngineering ethicsPedagogyPsychologySocial scienceGeographyEngineeringComputer scienceEpistemology

Abstract

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Students' reasoning and decision making on complex socioscientific issues are critical for developing scientific literacy for 21st century citizenship. By incorporating a scenario-based approach, this study aims to understand the complexity of students' decision making on environmental issues: forests and land use. To help students grasp the context of these issues, we developed scenarios reflecting their experiences and understanding of forests within local communities. Through scenario-based surveys, students in Grade 5-6 science classrooms were encouraged to explore diverse stakeholders' perspectives and articulate their decisions regarding the scenarios. Additionally, students in focus groups participated in semi-structured discussions and interviews. The data collected from the surveys and students' dialogues were thematically analyzed. The study found that students prioritized environmental concerns, demonstrated skepticism toward politicians' perspectives, and emphasized righteousness in their decision making. These findings suggest that a holistic approach is essential to engage students' diverse perspectives in socioscientific and environmental problem solving. However, this also highlights the ongoing challenge of disciplinary boundaries within school curricula and pedagogical practices in science classrooms.

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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)0.002
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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.155
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
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 head0.062
GPT teacher head0.486
Teacher spread0.424 · 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