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Record W4417422357 · doi:10.7577/rerm.6149

Becoming Scholars with Data

2025· article· W4417422357 on OpenAlex

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

VenueReconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicParticipatory Visual Research Methods
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser UniversityDouglas College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanismWork (physics)Data collectionCreativityLived experience

Abstract

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Our intention in this inquiry was to imaginatively engage with data to see what may be made possible. Informed by the ontological turn (Zembylas, 2017) and a call for creative engagement with data (Wolgemuth et al., 2025), we leveraged cognitive tools (Egan, 1997, 2005), to playfully engage with interview transcripts. Despite approaching the inquiry from a relational, more-than-human ontology, we found ourselves continually constrained by humanist understandings. Our inquiry highlights how implicit and deeply-entrenched our assumptions about research are; we illuminate these assumptions by exploring iterative problematics that arose in our playful engagement. Our engagement in this inquiry allowed the data to work on us, as we worked on the data, producing us differently as researchers and as scholars. Our experience with imaginative methodology opened up possibility and proliferated the ‘what if?’ required to move beyond dominant ways of knowing. However, our experience demonstrates the tensions we continue to navigate as becoming-researchers.

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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)0.172
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.273
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Open science, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.720
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1720.273
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.007
Science and technology studies0.0040.011
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0060.003
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

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 head0.968
GPT teacher head0.780
Teacher spread0.188 · 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