MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W853229008

Establishing and evaluating a distance master of education program

2000· dissertation· en· W853229008 on OpenAlexfundaboutno aff
Brett Cooper

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen ULeth Scholarship (OPUS) (University of Lethbridge) · 2000
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersGovernment of CanadaUniversity of Lethbridge
KeywordsGeneral partnershipMedical educationProgram evaluationSchool districtCohortEngineering managementEngineeringPsychologyMedicineMathematics educationPolitical sciencePublic administration
DOInot available

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

The purpose of this project is twofold.First, it was to establish if there was a need for a Master of Education program inSchool District 59 in British Columbia.If so, then to evaluate the effectiveness of the delivery model of the program after delivery of the first course.Following establishment of a cohort with The University of Lethbridge, where students use a combination of on-site instruction and computer-assisted instruction to complete the program requirements for a Master of Education, monitoring ofthe program development began.This development of the program took place over a fifteen-month period from October 1998 to January 2000 and had three distinct stages.Firstly, a needs assessment determined that there was support for establishing a cohort amongst the professionals of School District 59.Secondly, negotiations between School District 59 and The University of Lethbridge determined the parameters of a partnership.Thirdly, an evaluation of the program was conducted following completion of the first course delivered on-site.The evaluation of the first course confirmed that the model for delivery was very effective.The program is still ongoing at the time of this project completion and so further evaluation is pending.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.969
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.053
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.326 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
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".

Quick stats

Citations0
Published2000
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueOpen ULeth Scholarship (OPUS) (University of Lethbridge)Same topicOnline and Blended LearningFrench-language works237,207