Using LibreOffice Base to Teach Relational Database Management
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Choosing a relational database management system to support teaching database management is a frequent decision for IS instructors. However, scarce attention has been brought to LibreOffice Base. LibreOffice is a popular open-source software alternative to office management products such as Microsoft Office. This paper evaluates Base as an option to support teaching database management. Base was used to support teaching database management at McGill University during the winter 2021 semester. Overall, Base stood out as a practical choice for teaching database management concepts and SQL. It has low costs, high compatibility, easy installation, and is easy to use. Features allowing to easily share database files facilitated communications between the instructor and students and the management of material submitted to the instructor. Base, hence, appears well suited to teach database management concepts and standard SQL. However, it has lower market appeal than competitors such as Access and MySQL.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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