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Record W4414116277 · doi:10.29173/crossings328

Colour Theory & Association

2025· article· en· W4414116277 on OpenAlexaff
Grace Pitre

Bibliographic record

VenueCrossings An Undergraduate Arts Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicColor perception and design
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAssociation (psychology)AppealEducational researchHigher educationVisual methods

Abstract

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Colour significantly influences human perception, emotion, and memory, making it a powerful tool in educational contexts. This study explores the role of colour associations in creating visual identities for academic subjects to enhance student engagement, focus, and comprehension. By investigating common colour-to-subject associations among high school and university students, the research aims to determine if standardized colour schemes can improve the design of study materials and faculty communications. Using 11 participants, surveys, an interactive folder-labelling activity, and in-depth interviews, the findings indicate some consistent preferences, such as green for science and red for mathematics. These associations are shaped by early educational experiences, cultural connotations, and personal preferences. A mixed-methods approach, including surveys, interviews, and literature reviews, provides insights into the role of environmental factors and individual experiences in shaping these associations. The study concludes that creating standardized color-coded systems for academic subjects could significantly improve the organization and appeal of educational tools, ultimately benefiting student learning outcomes. Results suggest that integrating these colour associations into educational designs could make materials more intuitive, engaging, and effective for learners.

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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 categoriesScholarly communication, Insufficient 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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.090
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.040
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.336 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

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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