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The Problem with Problems: Helping Students Ask the RIGHT Questions

2013· article· en· W616580592 on OpenAlexaff
Katie Lutz

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarship@Western (Western University) · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicExperimental Learning in Engineering
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAsk priceProcess (computing)Active learning (machine learning)Mathematics educationProblem-based learningComputer sciencePsychologyArtificial intelligence
DOInot available

Abstract

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Students often approach their Engineering professors and teaching assistants for help with their assignments during office hours. This practice can be a vital part of the student learning process, yet busy Professors and TAs too often simply provide students with the solution (or steps to the solution) instead of working with the student to ensure that they understand the material. Furthermore, Boyer et al (2010) have found that Professors and TAs often ask their students very few questions, especially when they have not been trained to do so. When Professors and TAs do ask students questions, they rarely ask the most beneficial types.\nThis workshop provides Engineering professors and teaching assistants with information, tools, and guidance to help students solve numerical problems without simply providing them with the entire solution. The focus here is on engaging students in the learning process by helping them ask questions that facilitate active learning. This workshop gives special consideration to creating questions that can be adjusted to accommodate students’ differing learning styles.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.039
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score0.086

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.039
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.010
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0260.026

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.236 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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