Celebrating 35-Year’s Research Contribution to Psychology, Language Education and Communication: A Special Issue Honoring Peter MacIntyre
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Abstract
It is with immense pleasure and gratitude that we present this latest Special Issue of LTRQ, celebrating the remarkable 35-year career of Professor Peter MacIntyre and his extraordinary contributions to the broad fields of language education, educational psychology, and second language acquisition (SLA). Professor MacIntyre, currently a distinguished Professor of Psychology at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, stands as a towering figure in the interdisciplinary realms of educational psychology and language education. His groundbreaking work has not only advanced theoretical understanding and research methodology but has also had a profound impact on pedagogical practices worldwide.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.030 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.011 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".