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Record W4416833455 · doi:10.65106/apubs.2025.2696

Relieving instructor angst about inclusive design

2025· article· W4416833455 on OpenAlex
Frédéric Fovet

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

VenueASCILITE Publications · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDisability Education and Employment
Canadian institutionsThompson Rivers University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUniversal Design for LearningProcess (computing)Action (physics)WorkloadRelation (database)Inclusion (mineral)

Abstract

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The literature has established that if instructors shy away from implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) it is often because of lucid and tangible fears about workload. In parallel, the emergence of gen AI has immediately triggered hopes that large language models (LLMs) might be successfully used to support the challenging planning tasks of higher education instructors; it has immediately struck scholars that this might include supporting instructors who might have fears about workload and competencies in relation to UDL implementation in their classes. This study explored the degree to which an LLM could be effective in supporting an instructor redesign two Masters of Education courses in order to make them more aligned with UDL than they already were. The theoretical lens used in this project was the social model of disability. The methodological framework used was action research. The research team prompted the LLM for UDL strategies. A process of triangulation invited students having previously taken the courses to assess the effectiveness of the redesign. The findings suggest that gen AI can indeed support the UDL redesign of courses. Concerns are, however, raised because mastering the prompting competencies necessary may be as complex as the UDL redesign itself.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.884
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.365
Teacher spread0.328 · 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