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Record W4413149616 · doi:10.64152/10125/44164

Review of The Hockey Sweater CD-ROM

2009· article· en· W4413149616 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueLanguage learning & technology · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCD-ROMLibrary scienceMultimediaComputer scienceMathematics educationWorld Wide WebPsychologyOperating system

Abstract

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The Hockey Sweater CD-ROM is intended for young English language learners ages 11 and up and adult literacy learners whose English proficiency ranges from high beginning to advanced.The CD is meant to be used in an English language classroom or for self-study.A 172-page teacher's guide provides a transcript of the video on the CD, notes and information about each of the activities, and teaching ideas.The activities on the CD-ROM focus on the theme of hockey and the classic Canadian story The Hockey Sweater: A Childhood Recollection by Roch Carrier.This story, set in the winter of 1946 in a small city in Quebec, Canada, is about a young boy whose life centers around hockey.The boy and his friends idolize the Montreal Canadiens star player Maurice Richard and wear sweaters like his.One day, the young boy receives a new sweater in the mail, but it is from the Toronto Maple Leafs instead of the one he was hoping for, namely that of Maurice Richard.His mother forces him to wear the new sweater.He feels deeply embarrassed wearing the sweater when he plays hockey with his friends.He loses his temper and is sent to church to pray for forgiveness; instead, he prays for moths to eat up his new sweater.A review of Le Chandail de Hockey CD-ROM, the French version of The Hockey Sweater, was published recently (Caws, 2007) in Language Learning & Technology.Here, the English version of The Hockey Sweater is reviewed to evaluate the relevance this CD might have for teaching and learning English as a second language.The English version of the CD-ROM, like its French counterpart, is divided into three "periods" to represent the divisions of a hockey game.There are two other sections, "Zone" and "Encounters", both of which provide expanded writing activities and opportunities to learn about the creators of the the CD-ROM and the writer of the original story, Roch Carrier.The interactive activities on the CD-ROM are geared toward three specific proficiency levels: advanced beginner, called "Peewee"; intermediate, called "Junior"; and advanced, called "Pro" (for professional), reminiscent of levels in hockey.The levels of the interactive activities are indicated with hockey sticks; one hockey stick is used for Peewee, two for Junior, and three for the Pro level.The addition of the hockey sticks makes the CD-ROM appealing to young English language learners and also provides a quick way to identify the level for which an activity is intended.Overall, The Hockey Sweater provides good interactive listening, reading, vocabulary, and culture activities.Caws states that "[a]t first glance, Le chandail de hockey CD-ROM seems to require

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.904
Threshold uncertainty score0.258

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.237 · 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