Journeying into SoTL: A Transformative Experience Through the SPARK-ENG Professional Learning
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In engineering education, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) offers a pathway for educators to advance their professional learning and teaching practices. However, the perception of SoTL as less rigorous than traditional disciplinary research often discourages faculty engagement. Additionally, while engineering educators possess strong technical expertise in their respective fields, they often lack the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary for conducting educational research. These challenges were particularly evident among engineering educators at our university, a major Canadian institution. To address these gaps, we developed the SPARK-ENG program—a modular professional learning initiative providing support for engineering educators in their SoTL journey.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.032 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.043 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.023 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it