Social and learning context profiles of, barriers faced by and proposed solutions for at-risk emerging adults in Montreal adult education centres
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using Arnett's (2000) coined term "emerging adults" to refer to youths between the ages of 17 and 25 years old, this thesis aims to honour the perspectives of emerging adults attending adult education centres in Montreal, document a glimpse of their successes and obstacles, and be witness to their journey. This thesis constructs and discusses a social and learning context profile of emerging adults that is inclusive of their identities, their living and learning contexts and the obstacles they are facing and proposes possible actions to mitigate those issues. To this end, it leverages a literary review, the author's professional experiences as an adult educator, and data from an anonymous survey of 240 students fitting this profile. An additional summary of feedback provided by adult learners who identified as 25+ years old is attached as an appendix – though they fell outside the scope of this research, they nonetheless constitute an important part of the adult education population, and their stories should be heard.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".