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Capstone Revival

2015· article· W7093412162 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

VenueClark Digital Commons (Clark University) · 2015
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInnovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCapstoneCapstone courseConsistency (knowledge bases)Quality (philosophy)Problem-based learningField (mathematics)Graduate studentsWork (physics)
DOInot available

Abstract

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The capstone project is a culminating experience whereby students choose to research a topic that is relevant in their field of study and have been highly regarded as important learning activities. The capstone allows students to use research, analytical, problem solving and evaluation skills they have learned in the course of the graduate program. McGill indicates the benefit of the completion of a capstone project not only in gaining knowledge in capstone but also in learning how to apply the knowledge gained in other courses in the major (McGill, 2012). Currently, COPACE (College of Professional and Continuing Education) has three separate capstone programs – one each for MPA, MSPC, and MSIT. The goal of this study is to evaluate our existing capstones at COPACE and identify the components of a quality capstone program to benefit future capstones. This study will also determine whether integrating these three separate capstones programs into a single standard capstone is more beneficial than the current model. We will also show how to improve the existing capstones programs. The methods used in this study are: survey, broad research on other universities and analysis of 44 COPACE capstones. The target populations of the survey are COPACE graduate students graduated from 2013 to 2014. An anonymous questionnaire was sent by email to approximately 120 Clark students. The survey results are interpreted with suggestions for achieving more consistency in capstones.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.844
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.007
Science and technology studies0.0030.008
Scholarly communication0.0010.004
Open science0.0040.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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 head0.184
GPT teacher head0.346
Teacher spread0.162 · 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