Asperger's syndrome and the transition to adulthood: An examination of equity issues and program effectiveness within the Ontario secondary school system
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examined programming 'effectiveness' within Ontario secondary schools to determine how well adolescents with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) are being prepared for their transition to adulthood. More specifically, this research questioned whether education, as a site of social learning, enables youth with AS to obtain a positive identity and set of skills to prepare them for life beyond high school. Through the analysis of interviews conducted with two samples (one sample being high school graduates with AS, the other were professionals working in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorders), this study serves to report on, and open up a space for, research about AS within the social considerations of educational settings. This study attempted to show where educational programming can nurture adolescents with AS, however, the purpose of this inquiry was based upon the assumption that secondary school education may not be doing enough to prepare these students for the reality of adulthood. Through the analysis of varied programming measures used within Ontario secondary schools (specifically in areas of special education) this study's foundational assumptions were confirmed, and accordingly, several issues have been proposed for further investigation.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".