Hail Mary and holy water : a case study of faith permeation in education
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Abstract
I dedicate this work to my husband. Mark, thank you for always being there with your support and encouragement. Thank you especially for your patience with the many hours I have spent working on my degree. Thank you to my parents, my mother Anna, who is always proud of me, and in the memory of my father, Johnny. He always wanted me to excel in anything and everything and never wavered in his love for me. To my brother Jeremy and sister Vanessa, your ambition and zeal for a utopian future have always inspired me. Your examples have challenged me never to take the easy path. Thank you for making me want to be a better person. 111 The term "Catholic school " may conjure up images of children praying with fervor to our hallowed Mother on aching knees, or being forgiven all sins with a wave and splash of holy water. The question is, what makes a school Catholic? How does faith permeate a school in terms of its documents, practices and the people involved? The purpose of this study is to investigate faith permeation in education. This case study examines how Catholicity is integrated into a small elementary school's mission statement, policies, curriculum, and staff/community relationships. Evidence of faith permeation will be examined through an evaluation of school documents, a questionnaire of staff and interviews of three teachers and three parents. Through a reflective narrative account, it explores the history of Catholic education in Alberta and the guiding literature that has shaped one school's perspective. I will unearth any evidence of faith permeation in the case study school, which will allow me to describe the purpose of Catholic education. This project attempts to address implications for the future of Catholic education in
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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 | 0.010 | 0.021 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.040 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".