How to Train Your Librarian: The Inclusion of Pedagogy and Learning Theory in LIS Degrees
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Librarians are regularly required to develop and deliver innovative, engaging, and pedagogically sound workshops, classes and training sessions for patrons and colleagues, however teaching theory and pedagogy are not currently a core area in most LIS degrees. This paper reviews the inclusion of pedagogy and learning theory subjects in accredited LIS degrees in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and the USA. We find that there is a relationship between explicit mention of pedagogy in professional accreditation documents and the presence of related subjects in LIS degrees, however, the majority of these subjects are electives. We suggest that in order to better support the teaching roles of librarians, educational subjects should be made core to all LIS degree structures, and that more explicit inclusion of pedagogy in accreditation documents is required.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.007 |
| 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