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Record W4411629503 · doi:10.1080/09500693.2025.2517889

Science teacher's assessment of their students’ models

2025· article· en· W4411629503 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Science Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicScience Education and Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersAgenția Națională pentru Cercetare și Dezvoltare
KeywordsMathematics educationScience educationPsychologyPedagogy

Abstract

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This study explores science teachers’ assessment of their students’ models. The Questionnaire of Assessment Literacy (QALMBT-Modeling) was developed to investigate the range of in-service science teachers (ISTs)’ assessment practices in model-based teaching (MBT). The questionnaire was informed by an assessment literacy (AL) framework and rooted in studies on modelling in science education. This Likert-type scale questionnaire was administered to 386 middle and high school science teachers in Chile. Statistical analyses demonstrated strong reliability and structural validity of the scale and exploratory factor analysis revealed three key dimensions of AL in MBT (ALMBT): (1) assessment strategies to elicit, evaluate, and support student modelling; (2) facilitation of student-led evaluation and refinement of models through peer and self-assessment, (3) and communication of assessment criteria for student models. Analysis of item-level data showed that while teachers frequently provide feedback and evaluate students’ conceptual understanding of models, they less often involve students in peer/self-assessment or use student-generated criteria to assess models which are practices critical to epistemic growth in MBT. This work supports future efforts to refine assessment practices and promote reflective, model-rich science instruction, particularly during the evaluation and modification phases of the instructional cycle.

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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)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.698
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0030.000
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 head0.065
GPT teacher head0.528
Teacher spread0.463 · 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