A survey of parents who chose to enroll their grade one children in an independent school in Manitoba
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons parents have for enrolling their child(ren) in independent schools inthe province of Manitoba.An examination of studies conducted with respect to school choice provided a list of reasons parents have given for exercising choice in other jurisdictions.These findings proviCed the foundation for a further I;^terature review, which examined the reasons given in greater detail.The extent to which these i-;tors might be influential in the decision- making processes of parents in Manitoba is the focus of this study.The questionnaire used to gather information was developed from the literature review.The methodology consisted of soliciting the cooperation of the administrators of a number of independent schools in Manitoba.Eight schools were contacted, with four agreeing to participate.Each of the administrators was asked to assist in the mailing of questionnaires to parents of the children in a single grade one classroom in the school.In each case, self-addressed, postage-paid envelopes were provided to the school.The envelope contained the questionnaire, a letter of introduction, a letter of support from the administrator, and a postage-paid return envelope.Of the ninety-six questionnaires mailed, fifty-four were returned.An analysis was conducted on the responses.Each ofthe factors considered a potential reason for choosing an independent school was, indeed, significant in the minds of the parents exercising choice.However, the factors varied in importance.Parents did claim to be looking for schools that provided a 3reater level of safefy for their children.They also demonstrated a desire for greater opportunity for involvement in their child's education.t3
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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.
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".