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Record W4411020176 · doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c00310

SOCKit: An Online Tool for Systems Thinking

2025· article· en· W4411020176 on OpenAlexafffund
Robert MacDonald, Ashley K. Elgersma, Thomas A. Holme, Jeff Snyder, Micke Reynders, Peter G. Mahaffy

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Chemical Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicChemistry and Chemical Engineering
Canadian institutionsThe King's University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaDeakin UniversityUniversity of OttawaInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
KeywordsComputer scienceScience educationMathematics educationHuman–computer interactionMultimediaPsychology

Abstract

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Systems thinking is an important skillset for understanding dynamic interactions in complex systems. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition that systems thinking is needed in chemistry education to show the interconnection of concepts, to encourage student engagement and to connect learning of chemistry to global sustainability challenges and solutions. Systems mapping, using tools such as Systems-Oriented Concept Map Extensions (SOCMEs), is an important aspect of understanding the systems involved in chemistry, but there are no easy-to-use tools for creating dynamic SOCMEs, especially in educational contexts. At the King’s Centre for Visualization in Science (KCVS.ca), we have created SOCKit (SOCME Online Construction Kit), an interactive learning tool for dynamically creating SOCMEs using force-directed graphs. SOCKit has been designed to be intuitive and mobile-friendly, and can easily create, view, modify, and share SOCMEs to better understand systems and develop a systems thinking toolbox.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Software · Consensus signal: Software
Teacher disagreement score0.155
Threshold uncertainty score0.519

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1550.057

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.257 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreSoftware

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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