From curriculum to classroom: enhancing STEM educational assessment for refugee students in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The inclusion of newcomer students in education is a crucial issue in countries with large numbers of newcomers, such as Canada. Despite concerted efforts to meet the needs of these students and build on their strengths, recent standardised math test results show a worrying drop in the percentage of students meeting provincial norms. This study adopts a comparative curriculum analysis framework grounded in an in-depth exploration of the curricula of Afghanistan and Syria, highlighting the potential of this approach to uncovering the linguistic and cultural expertise of these students. Using a collaborative action research methodology, four case studies provide an insight into the possibility of adapting educational practices in host countries to identify both the strengths and academic needs of refugee students on arrival. The results show that a thorough examination of programmes in countries of origin can pave the way for greater inclusion of diversity in education and the redesign of STEM curricula.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it