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Record W4411896877 · doi:10.5539/jel.v14n5p357

Exploring the Pathway of Project-Based Learning for Enhancing Core Competency in Educational Psychology

2025· article· en· W4411896877 on OpenAlex
Yueyue Zhu, Di Wu, Jiawei Wang, Sandy C. Li

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Education and Learning · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEducational Research and Pedagogy
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersHebei University
KeywordsPsychologyMathematics educationPedagogyApplied psychology

Abstract

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This study explores the impact of project-based learning (PBL) on enhancing core competencies in educational psychology courses, specifically learning motivation, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving skills among undergraduate students. The research sample comprised 42 undergraduate students enrolled in an educational psychology course. A project-based learning management plan was implemented, with assessments conducted using the Working Preference Inventory, the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, and the Collaborative Problem-Solving Skills Scale. The results indicate that PBL significantly enhances students’ competitive awareness (t = 3.58, p < .01) and thirst for knowledge (t = 5.93, p < .001). Moreover, PBL fosters the systematic nature of students’ cognition (t = 2.98, p < .05) and promotes cognitive maturity (t = 44.08, p < .001). It also strengthens students’ ability to plan and execute problem-solving tasks (t = 4.00, p < .01). However, group collaboration in PBL settings may reduce individual initiative. These findings underscore the effectiveness of PBL in developing students’ core competencies, particularly within educational psychology. On one hand, this study highlights the role of PBL in enhancing students’ comprehensive abilities and promoting deep learning in undergraduate education. On the other hand, it suggests that the design and implementation of PBL should balance the dual needs of individual and team-based learning.

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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)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.565
Threshold uncertainty score0.699

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.154
GPT teacher head0.437
Teacher spread0.283 · 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