The Power of Stories: Examining the Impact of Storytelling on Learners
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Indigenous story-telling is vital for the transmission of oral histories from generation to generation. In a local First Nation, storytelling comes in the form of creation stories and individual stories. A Land-based Healing Cultural Support Worker and community partner has been working closely with a UVIC Environmental Sciences student on the translation, preservation, and revitalization of her individual story, “My Search for My Way of Being” for many years, detailing both positive and negative human experiences and the treasure box of teachings that have come from her life. This project created a thematic analysis and framework for the story to be used as a tool for the community partner to teach to a broad range of audiences and environments. This project used a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to analyze a recorded sample of the community partner’s teachings, including translations of key words in her language. Four main themes were synthesized and organized into a table with relevant info for teaching and discussion questions: 1) Family and Ancestral Connections, 2) Language, 3) Intergenerational Trauma, and 4) Spirituality.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.008 |
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".