Reconciling ‘Graduateness’ and \nWork-based Learning
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The last decade has seen a development of interest in the nature of \n‘graduateness’. Starting with the (former) Higher Education Quality \nCouncil’s Graduate Skills project in the mid-1990s and culminating \nin the current preoccupation with transferable skills, the question \nhas been asked what the common skills or attributes are that \ndistinguish graduates from non-graduates. In contrast with business \nor government’s interest in generic graduate skills, the view of \ngraduateness within universities is very much associated with specific \ndisciplines and undergraduate education with enculturation into a \nparticular academic discipline. This focus on disciplinary content has \nposed some challenges for the design of Foundation degrees, which \nare intended to be a blend of academic and workplace learning, and it \nalso reinforces the academic/vocational divide. Recently, a number of \nhonours degrees entitled ‘Professional Studies’ have been developed; \nthese awards are designed to offer successful Foundation degree \nstudents a route through to honours which uses work-based learning. \nThese awards vary in content and structure but tend to be designed on \nthe basis that generic graduate attributes, which Barrie defines \n‘… as being the skills, knowledge and abilities of university graduates, \nbeyond disciplinary content knowledge …’ (2004, p.262), can be \ndeveloped outside a conventional academic discipline. \n \nThis paper examines the pedagogic principles underlying the design \nof one work-based learning ‘top up’ programme which leads to a BSc \nin Professional Studies. It explores the issues involved in drawing \ndirectly on experience in the workplace as the material for higher \nlevel learning. The programme challenges conventional pedagogic \napproaches which are dominant in the university, and emphasises the \nimportance of direct action and experience to learning. The authors \noutline the challenges which need to be addressed in programme \ndesign when moving away from a focus on disciplinary content, \nand explain the importance of a focus on process in reconciling \ngraduateness and work-based learning.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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