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Record W7041085511

Seasonality of GPA

2012· dissertation· en· W7041085511 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University) · 2012
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInnovations in Educational Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarter (Canadian coin)SeasonalitySpring (device)Rest (music)PrecipitationAtmospheric research
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper is on the seasonality of GPA. It is exceptionally under-researched, which is odd because of its potential applicability. The primary purpose of this paper is to build a framework on which future research may be conducted concerning the determinants of GPA through an intra-year lens. This may be of interest to universities, as knowing how GPA varies between seasons may be useful in their use of resources or course scheduling. \n I acquired most of my data from the Center for the Study of Student Life (CSSL); the rest (precipitation) was from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The CSSL provided me with data on GPA, class rank, credit hours, ethnicity, birthplace, year, and quarter. The NOAA provided data on precipitation readings gathered at the OSU airport.\n My findings were that fall and winter quarters are both negatively correlated with GPA when compared to spring quarter when using fixed-effects. Additionally, the coefficients associated with fall and winter quarters could not be proven to be statistically different from each other, so, while they are both worse than spring quarter performance, we cannot say that there’s a difference between the two.\n This paper asks many questions, the most important/intriguing of which are: Why does the most recent academic year have the lowest average GPA? Why does there exist a spring quarter spike? These are very important questions, and I hope to answer them with further research.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.915
Threshold uncertainty score0.950

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.346
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it