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Current institutional responses\u2014task redesign and AI skills training\u2014have shown limited effectiveness, as they overlook the psychological internalization process, teacher-student relational dynamics, and their synergistic effects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study conducted a three-arm quasi-experiment with 155 doctoral students in education over one semester. Group A (traditional model) received no AI guidance; Group B received AI skills training only; Group C received comprehensive reform combining AI training, practical team-based projects, and humble mentor leadership training. Psychological empowerment was measured as a mediator, and humble mentor leadership as a moderator. Data were analyzed using regression with cluster-robust standard errors and bootstrap tests.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Group C scored significantly higher than Groups A and B on course satisfaction, professional competence, and psychological empowerment (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.001). Psychological empowerment showed a significant indirect association with learning outcomes (indirect effect = 0.22, 95% CI [0.12, 0.34]), with meaning and autonomy as the core dimensions. Humble mentor leadership significantly moderated the engagement\u2013empowerment path within Group C (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.24,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.001), with the conditional indirect effect significant only under high humble leadership.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings suggest that the synergy of practical task redesign, psychological empowerment, and humble mentor leadership may be associated with positive student outcomes in AI-era educational reform. However, due to the cluster-assigned design with one cluster per condition and non-equivalent assessment tasks across groups, all results should be interpreted as exploratory and hypothesis-generating rather than causal. Future research should employ multi-cluster or individually randomized designs with common assessment tasks to permit valid causal inference.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1897845","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,12]],"date-time":"2026-08-12T04:47:10Z","timestamp":1786510030000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Psychological empowerment and relational catalysis: a quasi-experimental study on graduate education evaluation reform in the AI era"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Kefei","family":"Tan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Educational, Minzu University of China","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bing","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Educational, Minzu University of China","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.48550\/arXiv.2505.12454","article-title":"Towards \u00b7DS-NER: unveiling and addressing latent noise in distant annotations","author":"Ding","year":"2022","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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