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  "protocolVersion": "1.0",
  "articleNumber": "A10",
  "title": "Who May Change the Learning Place? A Community-Governed Trial of Cultural Authority, School Belonging and Disciplinary Transfer",
  "author": "Dr. Freedom Cheteni",
  "humanAuthorOrcid": "0009-0006-3507-0094",
  "status": "research-protocol",
  "verifiedAt": "2026-10-16",
  "humanPeerReviewCompleted": false,
  "reviewerName": null,
  "doi": null,
  "designSummary": [
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      "value": "64",
      "label": "Planned schools"
    },
    {
      "value": "32",
      "label": "Matched pairs"
    },
    {
      "value": "2,560",
      "label": "Planned baseline students"
    },
    {
      "value": "24 + 12",
      "label": "Study and follow-up weeks"
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  "plannedPairs": 32,
  "plannedStudentsPerSchool": 40,
  "plannedStudents": 2560,
  "durationWeeks": 24,
  "followUpWeeks": 12,
  "primaryOutcome": "Permission-cleared school membership score change at 24 weeks; wording and scoring locked after independent pilot",
  "actualTrialParticipants": 0,
  "trialResultsReported": false,
  "registrationId": null,
  "ethicsApprovalId": null,
  "executedAnalyses": [
    "Official NCES CCD 2023–24 version 1a school-directory and membership streaming audits",
    "12 paired-school retention/comparison-exposure scenarios, 10,000 artificial replicates each"
  ],
  "conceptualCompanionSlug": "cultural-authority-spatial-learning",
  "randomization": "One school per matched pair after locked baseline cohort and consent; independent allocation custodian",
  "plannedUnit": "School;32 matched pairs with2 schools each.",
  "frame": "Historical NCES CCD 2023–24 version1a regular active schools offering grades7 and8; current eligibility and community permissions are separately confirmed.",
  "primaryEstimand": "Equal-school/pair average assigned-offer effect on24week within-student belonging score change in the fixed baseline cohort",
  "primaryInstrument": "Permission-cleared Goodenow PSSM; independent measurement pilot and scoring lock before allocation; no copyrighted items reproduced.",
  "primaryProposedCompletionRule": "Original reverse key; keyed mean1–5 when at least16 of18 items are answered. This proposed completion rule requires a pilot and is not asserted as validated.",
  "secondaryOutcomes": [
    "Blinded original0–16disciplinary transfer rubric at24weeks",
    "Delayed transfer/belonging at36weeks",
    "Governance responsiveness, unpaidwork, compensation, refusals, privacy harms"
  ],
  "comparator": "Equivalent planning time, facilitator contact, curriculum budget, technical/accessibility support and assessment; ordinary curriculum-review process without added representation-governance package",
  "treatment": "Four six-week community-governed design cycles: representation provenance, bounded challenge rights, reasoned institutional responses and appeals, separate permissions, and private/fictitious/refusal pathways.",
  "culturalAuthorityBoundary": "NCES race/ethnicity never serves as cultural identity, authority or consent; individual and collective permissions are distinct",
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    "Independent ethics/safeguarding determination",
    "Appropriate community/rightsholder agreements and material permissions",
    "Instrument permissions and independent measurement pilot",
    "Validated analysis implementation and prospective registration",
    "Confirmed staff, accessible routes, compensation and budget"
  ],
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    "Full official directory and membership streaming audit",
    "12 artificial paired-school sensitivity scenarios with10,000 replicates each"
  ],
  "softwareBoundary": "The public tool does not implement or validate planned MI, ordinal invariance, network effects or longitudinal participant models.",
  "dataProtection": "Separate consent, recording, quotation, publication and reuse permissions; no required personal narrative, ORCID, public profile or AI-training contribution.",
  "interferenceBoundary": "School-network sharing is documented. There is no randomized saturation design, so direct and indirect effects are not separately identified.",
  "designStatus": "prospective"
}