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Record W4410449088 · doi:10.1177/14788047251343791

Authentic group projects for upper-level economics courses

2025· article· en· W4410449088 on OpenAlexaff
Julien Picault

Bibliographic record

VenueCitizenship Social and Economics Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInnovations in Educational Methods
Canadian institutionsOkanagan University CollegeUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGroup (periodic table)Mathematics educationMathematicsPsychologyMathematical economicsPhysics

Abstract

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This article describes a method to introduce authentic group projects in upper-level economics courses. Such projects allow students to reflect and solidify their learning of the key economics concepts developed in a course and to experience the benefits inherent to authentic assessment, such as increased autonomy and depth of learning and development of the abilities needed in the workplace. Also, authentic group projects demonstrate to students that economics is a highly practical social science. These projects invite students to act as representatives with the goal of convincing a government official that their chosen issue warrants government intervention. These term projects require students to follow a scaffolded process designed to separate the more objective from the more subjective steps, both of which are essential to the project's quality. Instructors can use such projects in many upper-level courses.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.024
Threshold uncertainty score0.081

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0240.007

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 head0.105
GPT teacher head0.401
Teacher spread0.296 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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".

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