Guidance Counselors' Enactment of Educational Equity Policies: A Cross-Case Analysis of Ontario and Trinidad and Tobago
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Abstract
This dissertation examined the experiences of guidance counselors in enacting educational equity policies in one district school board and eight secondary schools in Ontario; and three school districts and eight secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). In Ontario, the enactment of educational equity policy in local district school boards is influenced by broader issues of neoliberal globalization and their impact on education equity, causing a shift in focus on reducing student gaps and increasing student achievement towards the marketization and commodification of education. Likewise in T&T, the issues in education and policy enactment are centred around the lingering effects of colonialism operating within a differentiated and segregated school system that is perceived as elitist and based on meritocratic ideologies.\nIn this dissertation, postcolonial, policy sociology, and policy enactment theories serve as conceptual frameworks to understand the actions/positions and roles of guidance counselors in equity policy work. Using a qualitative, cross-case policy enactment approach, interviews were conducted with eight guidance counselors in Ontario, and eight guidance counselors in T&T to investigate their work on enacting educational equity policies at secondary schools. Primary data were collected from semi-structured interviews, transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis and coding strategies for inductive studies. Secondary data were collected from governments' Ministry of Education policies in Ontario and T&T.\nThe findings revealed that postcolonial antecedents and neoliberal globalization influence education and equity work in Ontario and T&T secondary schools. In Ontario and Trinidad and Tobago educational equity policy enactment work exists within contextual dimensions impacting the different roles and positions guidance counselors assumed in their policy enactment work at secondary schools. The analysis of policy documents and interview data for Ontario and Trinidad and Tobago revealed the symbolic nature of educational equity policies.\nKeywords: equity policy; educational policy; guidance counselor; policy enactment; Ontario; Trinidad and Tobago; postcolonial theory, policy sociology, cross-case analysis, contexts
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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 | 0.006 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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