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Record W7133065518

A study of special education during the interwar years

2004· dissertation· W7133065518 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
MaryAnne L Regan

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2004
Typedissertation
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegislationSpecial educationInterwar periodEugenicsFirst world warPerspective (graphical)Special needsPeriod (music)
DOInot available

Abstract

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An examination of the creation, development and expansion of Special Education during the interwar years in Ontario is long overdue. For the purpose of this study, legislation, scientific practices, the development of rights, and the role of women as professionals, volunteers and mothers have all been analyzed. As will be demonstrated, legislation during this period was enacted for the purpose of identifying and segregating Special Needs children. The creation of Special Education was cultivated by the discovery that scientific procedures could assist with and determine the identification of Special Needs children. Although my research indicates that emergence of Special Education was fundamentally linked to the eugenics movement, the eugenical perspective does not sufficiently explain the development of rights. This paper will demonstrate that during the interwar years, a significant development and expansion occurred in Special Education, and the transformation was principally attributable to the role women played.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.085
Threshold uncertainty score0.619

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.006
Science and technology studies0.0290.013
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.011
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.309 · 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 designQualitative
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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Citations0
Published2004
Admission routes1
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