Bibliographic record
Abstract
Homeschooling through the public school system is a relatively new trend in education.This qualitative study focuses on the experiences of six families participating in public school homeschooling programs in British Columbia, Canada.(Parents were interviewed and the interviews were recorded with transcripts becoming the primary data for this research.)Parents' motivations for homeschooling through the public system, rather than homeschooling on their own, are centered on financial advantages, in terms of refunds, and on support and guidance from trained teachers.Parents perceive public school classrooms negatively.Lack of attention to individual learning styles, large class-sizes, grade-aged groupings, teacher style, and negative socialization in and outside of the classroom are common criticisms.Conclusions of the study include suggestions for teachers and program organizers.The wider community, including different aged children, mentors, and elders are commonly viewed as unused resources. DedicationThis work is dedicated to my family.You have shown patience and the ability to carry on while I slowly plodded to completion.To my wife Sharon, all my love and thanks for all your support and sacrifices.To my sons Kieran, Jack, Cameron and Jimmy, I thank you for being the wonderful individuals you are.I love you all, and could not have done this without you."Grandpa took one oar, the small boy of six the other.The mother in the stern held a sleeping child under her shawl and grasped the steering paddle.A young girl beside her settled into a shawl-swathed lump.Children tumbled themselves among the household goods and immediately slept.Loosed from her mooring, the big canoe glided forward.The man and the boy rowed her into the current.When she met it she swerved like a frightened horse-accepted-gave herself to its guiding, her wolfs head stuck proud and high above the water.. .O u r going was imperceptible, the woman's steering paddle the only thing that moved, its silent cuts stirring phosphorus like white fire."
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".