Canada. PUB TYPE Dissertations/Theses Mast rs Theses (042)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examined the experiences of three mothers who were volunteers in an alternative special education class of kindergarten through fourth graders at a Canadian public school. This class was organized at the behest of parents who wanted more involvement in their children's education. The study sought to answer, through a series of interviews, the following questions about the three mothers who became very active in the class: (1) How did these women view the school setting? (2) How did the women deal with their children's education? (3) What motivated these women to volunteer? (4) How did the women interact in the classroom with their own children, other children, and the teacher? and (5) What personal growth had each of the wcaen observed in themselves and how had it affected their lives? It was found that the mothers had certain characteristics in common, including strong reasons for stepping outside et the mainstream and volunteering, and a tendency to leave or reduce their involvement in the program after several years. It was also discovered that participation in the alternative class enlarged these women's view of education and allowed them to satisfy a need to make contact with other people concerned with their children's education. An excerpt from an interview is appended. (Contains 18 references.) (MDM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.869 | 0.731 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".