Ivy-covered professors seek greener pastures for students: The biology-pharmacology co-op programme is set up
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bright college days, oh, carefree days that fly To thee we sing with our glasses raised on high Let's drink a toast as each of us recalls Ivy-covered professors in ivy-covered halls.-Tom Lehrer in "Bright College Days, " 1959 In the Fall of 1989, 16 students took a chance.They entered an untried, untested undergraduate science program at McMaster University, a joint one between the Faculties of Science and Health Sciences.It had some novel features-it was a hybrid program where the pharmacology courses were taught in the small-group format of problem-based learning (PBL) by health sciences faculty, whereas many of the other courses in the Faculty of Science were largely didactic.It also had a co-operative component, where students got academic credit for working beyond the sacred groves of academe.The objectives were to create a cadre of resourceful, flexible students for future academic and industrial research in Canada.Thirty-two years later, in the Spring of 2021, during an unprecedented year of turmoil, 15 students graduated from the program.Despite the passage of time, the original vision of its founders appeared intact.I (PKR) had been closely involved with the program for over 15 years in its early days, and I contacted Dr. E.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.305 | 0.188 |
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".