Agent skill

Jedpsych Topic Selection

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target.

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Install Jedpsych Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-topic-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jedpsych-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-Educational-Psychology-Skills/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection .claude/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
jedpsych-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
544 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target.

  • Works in 4 steps: Educational relevance. The phenomenon is… → Psychological theory. A… → Rigor for the setting. Adequately… → …
  • Deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The fit test, Manuscript type and Fit scoring — worked example…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jedpsych Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target. JEP wants original, primary psychological research on learning and instruction that matters for real educational settings; it does not typically publish single-instrument reliability/validity studies. Frames the question; it does not collect data.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target

Example prompts

  • “/jedpsych-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Educational relevance. The phenomenon is about learning, motivation, engagement, achievement,
  2. Psychological theory. A learning/motivation/cognitive mechanism predicts the effect; this is a
  3. Rigor for the setting. Adequately powered for its design — and if students are nested in classes
  4. Ecological validity. It speaks to real educational contexts, not only a stripped lab analog —

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Jedpsych Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 544 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~103
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 544 words, ~1,516 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jedpsych-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target. JEP wants original, primary psychological research on learning and instruction that matters for real educational settings; it does not typically publish single-instrument reliability/validity studies. Frames the question; it does not collect data.

Topic Selection & Fit (jedpsych-topic-selection)

The Journal of Educational Psychology publishes original, primary psychological research pertaining to education across all ages and educational levels (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). The bar is a finding that is theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous, and educationally consequential — it should change how psychologists understand learning, motivation, achievement, or instruction and matter for learners in schools, classrooms, or online settings. Use this skill to pressure-test fit before investing.

When to trigger

  • Choosing among possible projects or framings for JEP
  • A reader said the work feels "atheoretical," "not educational," or "just a lab effect"
  • Deciding between a single study, a multi-study package, or a meta-analysis
  • Unsure whether a measurement/validation paper belongs here (it usually does not)

The fit test

A strong JEP paper usually clears all four:

  1. Educational relevance. The phenomenon is about learning, motivation, engagement, achievement, reading/math/science learning, assessment, self-regulation, or instruction — and the result has a defensible implication for educational practice or policy. State who in education inherits the claim.
  2. Psychological theory. A learning/motivation/cognitive mechanism predicts the effect; this is a psychological research journal, not a program-evaluation outlet (see jedpsych-theory-and-hypotheses).
  3. Rigor for the setting. Adequately powered for its design — and if students are nested in classes or schools, the design and analysis must respect that nesting (see jedpsych-study-design, jedpsych-data-analysis).
  4. Ecological validity. It speaks to real educational contexts, not only a stripped lab analog — field trials, authentic tasks, and real learners strengthen fit.

Manuscript type

  • Primary empirical article — a completed experiment, randomized field trial, quasi-experiment, or longitudinal study with a learning-relevant outcome.
  • Multi-study article — several studies that build one cumulative claim (lab → classroom, mechanism → boundary, replication → extension); each study must add inference.
  • Meta-analysis — published occasionally, only for exceptionally important syntheses pertinent to educational psychology; follow APA meta-analysis reporting standards.
  • Out of scope (usually): reliability/validity studies of a specific test or instrument.

Fit scoring — worked example (illustrative)

Score a candidate against the four gates before investing. A reading-intervention project, two framings:

Candidate A (off-fit): a lab study showing a memory-encoding effect on word
            lists, N = 60 undergraduates, no link to instruction.
  Educational relevance ✗   Theory ✓   Rigor ~ (small)   Ecological ✗
  Verdict: off-fit for JEP → general cognition outlet, or rebuild as a
           classroom learning study with an instructional implication.

Candidate B (strong): cluster-randomized comprehension-strategy intervention,
            48 classrooms (~1,100 students), pretest covariate, transfer outcome.
  Educational relevance ✓ (classroom reading) Theory ✓ (strategy-instruction
  mechanism)  Rigor ✓ (cluster-powered)  Ecological ✓ (real classrooms)
  Verdict: strong fit → primary empirical article.
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Manuscript-type decision rules

If the work is...Target typeWhy
One completed learning study, results in handPrimary empirical articlethe standard JEP slot
A cumulative claim built across studiesMulti-study articleeach study must add inference, not repeat
A prospective classroom/school trial, not yet runPrimary article (preregister)settle nesting + power before recruiting
A field-defining quantitative synthesisMeta-analysisonly if "exceptionally important"; follow MARS
Validation of one instrumentSpecialty measurement journalJEP does not typically publish these

Reviewer / editor pushback at the fit stage

  • "Interesting psychology, but where is the education?" → name the instructional or policy implication and the real-setting evidence; if there is none, the venue is wrong.
  • "This is program evaluation, not psychological research" → foreground the learning/motivation mechanism the study tests, not just whether the program worked.
  • "Underpowered for a classroom effect" → power at the level of randomization; a student-level N hides a small number of clusters (route to jedpsych-study-design).

Anti-patterns

  • A lab effect with no plausible bridge to learning or instruction
  • A pure program evaluation with no psychological mechanism or theory
  • A single-instrument reliability/validity paper (out of scope)
  • A classroom study powered and pitched as if students were independent
  • A meta-analysis pitched as routine rather than field-defining

Output format

【Question / effect】one sentence
【Educational relevance】who in education inherits the claim
【Theory】the learning/motivation mechanism
【Rigor + setting】powered for its design? ecologically valid?
【Type】Primary empirical / Multi-study / Meta-analysis
【Fit verdict】strong / needs reframing / off-fit (why)
【Next】jedpsych-theory-and-hypotheses

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Educational-Psychology-Skills/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jedpsych Topic Selection

What does Jedpsych Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target. Jedpsych Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target.

When should I use Jedpsych Topic Selection?

Jedpsych Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether an educational-psychology project fits the Journal of Educational Psychology and which manuscript type to target.

How do I install Jedpsych Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Educational-Psychology-Skills/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jedpsych Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Educational-Psychology-Skills/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jedpsych Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jedpsych-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection, .github/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/jedpsych-topic-selection in your project.

What does Jedpsych Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jedpsych Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jedpsych Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Jedpsych Topic Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Jedpsych Topic Selection use?

Jedpsych Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Jedpsych Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Jedpsych Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.