LABOR CURRICULUM REFORM AND LABOR LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY BASED ON THE THREE-WIDE EDUCATION FRAMEWORK

Authors

  • Hai-Rong Xie School of Management, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v13i8.6949

Keywords:

Three-wide Education, labor education, curriculum reform, labor literacy, value-added evaluation

Abstract

The curriculum-based development of labor education in higher education requires a shift from general task-based arrangements to more systematic practice-oriented pedagogical design. Drawing on the Three-wide Education Framework, this study redesigned a university labor curriculum and evaluated its effectiveness using a pretest–posttest control-group quasi-experimental design. The study involved 270 valid student participants from three undergraduate programs—administrative management, e-commerce, and biology education—with 135 students in the experimental group and 135 in the control group. The experimental group received a reformed course that integrated optimized learning objectives, reconstructed practice tasks, strengthened reflection and feedback, and diversified assessment, whereas the control group followed conventional instruction. The results showed that the two groups were comparable in labor literacy before the intervention. After the course, the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group in both posttest scores and value-added scores across four dimensions: labor cognition, labor competence, labor habits, and labor responsibility. The findings provide empirical evidence for the design of labor education curricula, practice-oriented course reform, and student development assessment in higher education. The study also demonstrates the value of combining pretest-posttest comparison with value-added analysis in evaluating practice-oriented curriculum reform.

Author Biography

  • Hai-Rong Xie, School of Management, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou, China

    Hai-Rong Xie is a Lecturer at the School of Management, Guangdong University of Education, China. Her research interests include curriculum reform, e-commerce, public administration, and artificial intelligence applications in education and management. Her current research focuses on practice-oriented curriculum reform, student development assessment, and digital transformation in higher education.

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2026-08-20

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Vol. 13 No. 8 (2026)

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