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Record W4411374747 · doi:10.1145/3724389.3731253

ShapeCreator Mobile: Practicing Coding at Home in Low-Resource Environments

2025· article· en· W4411374747 on OpenAlexaff
Oluwaseun Owojaiye, Ahila Ramesh Rajamani, Angela Zavaleta Bernuy, Christopher Kumar Anand

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultimedia Communication and Technology
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceCoding (social sciences)Resource (disambiguation)Mobile computingMultimediaTelecommunicationsComputer networkSociology

Abstract

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Access to STEM education is limited in many low-resource areas due to inadequate access to computers, the internet, trained educators, and reliable electricity. However, according to the GSM Association, over 54% of the global population owns a smartphone, presenting an opportunity for mobile-based learning solutions. To address this gap, we developed ShapeCreator Mobile, a learning tool designed to deliver our Algebraic Thinking curriculum to children with limited access to laptops but who own smartphones. This curriculum strengthens foundational math skills through coding, preparing students for high school algebra, a gateway to STEM careers. This approach bridges the digital divide and promotes inclusivity in STEM education in low-resource environments.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.052

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.005

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.309 · 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 designObservational
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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