Walking school buses in Christchurch - do they encourage or discourage independent mobility?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article considers the benefits of a Walking School Bus, defined as parents or other adults escorting a group of children on a set route to school. The first Walking School Bus (WSB) was started in Canada in 1996 and can now be found in a variety of countries, including New Zealand. The authors describe the use of WSBs in Christchurch, New Zealand, focusing on the administrative steps in establishing a WSB program, the health benefits to children walkers, the general safety of walking, reductions to traffic congestion, the impact of the WSB on a child's development of independence, the development of lifelong habits of walking, and the encroachment of automobile transportation onto other aspects of city life, notably safe pedestrian movement. The authors summarize a number of relevant research studies in this area and conclude that walking school buses may encourage independent mobility in children at a younger age than if they had not been involved in them. (TRID abstract)
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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