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Turning the Spotlight on Science

2011· book-chapter· en· W90755845 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSensePublishers eBooks · 2011
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicScience Education and Perceptions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoInstitute for Christian Studies
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCurriculumContext (archaeology)Engineering ethicsNature of ScienceSociologyPolitical sciencePsychologyPublic relationsPedagogyScience educationEngineeringGeography

Abstract

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In addition to addressing a number of topical and controversial SSI (health hazards associated with mobile phones, xenotransplantation, stem cell research, GM foods, and the like), the curriculum needs to turn the critical spotlight on science itself. In particular, encouraging students to direct careful and critical attention to the role and status of scientific knowledge, the procedures by which scientific knowledge is generated, validated and disseminated, the language in which it is communicated to other scientists, students and the wider public, the values that underpin the conduct of scientists, the moral-ethical issues raised by contemporary scientific developments, and the wider social, political and economic climate in which science is practised. If teachers are to present science and scientific practice in a critical light, they need reliable information about the kind of understanding their students are likely to have already. Methods for ascertaining those views, including questionnaires and surveys, interviews, small group discussions, writing tasks and classroom observations (particularly in the context of hands-on activities), have been extensively reviewed by Hodson (2008, 2009a) and will not be revisited here. While it is always dangerous to generalize from research findings, it is fair to say, as noted in chapter 2, that many students (and their teachers) hold confused, confusing, misleading or downright false views about science, scientists and scientific practice36, views that are compounded by similarly inadequate/unsatisfactory views located in science textbooks and curriculum materials, projected via the so-called “hidden curriculum”, encountered through informal learning experiences in museums, zoos and science centres, and promulgated by the popular media.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.750
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0240.005

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 head0.089
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.236 · 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