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The structure of attitudes towards science

2003· dissertation· W7132959397 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Zoi Angelis

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2003
Typedissertation
Language
FieldPsychology
TopicEducation, Achievement, and Giftedness
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLocus of controlExploratory factor analysisInterpretation (philosophy)Exploratory researchExploratory analysisControl (management)Peer group
DOInot available

Abstract

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The underlying structure of attitude questions on Student Questionnaire accompanying the School Achievement Indicators Program (SAIP) Science Assessment (1999) is investigated. An exploratory factor analysis is employed to analyse data from 13- and 16-year-old Ontario Anglophone students. Results support a six-factor model for both age groups. The factors for the 13-year-old students are interpreted as: (1) interest in and liking of school, (2) importance of and interest in science, (3) external locus of control, (4) extracurricular activities, (5) peer interaction, and (6) parental involvement. The interpretation of the model for the 16-year-old students is similar with the exception that items representing a combination of internal locus of control and engagement form a distinct factor and items related to extracurricular activities do not. The dimensions revealed by the exploratory factor analysis represent similar constructs to those conceptualized by the Council of Ministers of Education Canada in developing the questionnaire.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.436
Teacher spread0.407 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2003
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