Adult literacy and lifestyle changes: Understanding the special awareness, needs and stories of six adults who are literacy challenged
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Comparatively few studies examined the possible lifestyle changes of adults whose literacy skills have improved. This research studied the experiences of 6 men and women with literacy challenges, who received help with literacy skills to determine if they perceived improvements in the quality of their lifestyles owing to improvements in their skills. This study focussed on the stories told by these adults after their literacy skills had improved. This thesis is based on interviews with 6 adults who were previously literacy challenged, 3 currently living in Canada and 3 presently residing in England. From a reflexive inquiry of my own involvement in the research process, I considered in this study the difficulties of entering the private world of adults with literacy challenges. Using a narrative inquiry method, I analyzed the interview results and found a positive correlation between the acquisition of literacy skills and the recognition of self-esteem and lifestyle change. The narrative inquiry method encouraged me to examine my own role as practitioner researcher. In doing so, I reexamined my 25-year assumptions about a researcher's supposed detachment and possible responsibility in the research process.
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".