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26 February 2026

Research on the Mechanisms and Practical Pathways Through Which Project-Based Learning Enhances College Students’ Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy

Haoran Tang1 Yuanting Wei1
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1 Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, Sichuan, China
EIR 2026 , 4(2), 154–159; https://doi.org/10.18063/EIR.v4i2.1558
© 2026 by the Author. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Higher-quality employment has imposed higher requirements on talent cultivation in higher education, and the enhancement of college students’ career cognition, decision-making ability, and developmental confidence has increasingly become an important component of higher education reform. As an instructional approach primarily characterized by authentic problem orientation, task-based practice, and the presentation of outcomes, project-based learning is capable of establishing a closer connection among knowledge acquisition, competence development, and career preparation. To enhance career decision-making self-efficacy, it is necessary to further construct a tiered project system oriented toward career development, improve a multi-agent collaborative support mechanism for project implementation, and establish an educational mechanism integrating process evaluation with reflective transformation.

Keywords
project-based learning
career decision-making self-efficacy
college students
high-quality employment
Funding
This paper is an output of the Ideological and Political Education Research Project (Counselor Special Program) supported by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education and the Training and Research Center for Ideological and Political Work Teams in Higher Education (Southwest Jiaotong University) (Project No.: CJSFZ25-44).
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