Assessment Details
Academic Year: 2020-2021 Level: Graduate
Campus Department: Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences [UG and Grad]
Program Type: Major [UG] / Program [Grad]
Program Name: Psychology PhD (Link)
Description of Data Collection:
At each student’s Ph.D. dissertation defense, the committee members and the student fill out a questionnaire to assess the degree to which each learning objective has been achieved (on a rating scale from 1 to 7).
Placement and publication data for graduate students are recorded annually.
Review Process:
The Graduate Program Committee meets each year to analyze all of the questionnaires from the previous year (described in the previous section) by aggregating the responses for each question to evaluate how well our graduate program is meeting each of the learning outcome goals described above.
At a faculty meeting, the Graduate Program Committee proposes changes to the graduate program in an effort to better meet each of the learning outcome goals. Each proposal is discussed and voted on by the faculty, and if approved, the corresponding change to the graduate program is implemented.
Resulting Program Changes:
The ratings from the Ph.D. students that graduated within the last year were considered when evaluating the program.
For committee members, the average assessment ratings on the learning outcomes described in section 1, on a 7-point scale, were: 6.9, 6.8, 6.8, 7.0, 6.8, and 6.8.
For graduate students, the average assessment ratings on the learning outcomes were: 6.8, 6.8, 6.8, 7.0, 6.5, and 7.0.
The ratings were all very good (ranging from 6.5-7.0); however, the fifth outcome corresponding to “Provide effective undergraduate level instruction” had a more modest rating from graduate students. Based on this, the graduate program director will encourage graduate students to request more opportunities to guest lecture when they TA courses, teach their own courses as a Teaching Fellow in the department, and take part in the Apprenticeship in College Teaching program at Boston College (all of these options have been available to students for many years). Moreover, the graduate program director will encourage faculty to allow Teaching Assistants a greater number of opportunities to guest lecture.
Date of Most Recent Program Review:
The ratings from the Ph.D. students that graduated within the last year were considered when evaluating the program.
For committee members, the average assessment ratings on the learning outcomes described in section 1, on a 7-point scale, were: 6.9, 6.8, 6.8, 7.0, 6.8, and 6.8.
For graduate students, the average assessment ratings on the learning outcomes were: 6.8, 6.8, 6.8, 7.0, 6.5, and 7.0.
The ratings were all very good (ranging from 6.5-7.0); however, the fifth outcome corresponding to “Provide effective undergraduate level instruction” had a more modest rating from graduate students. Based on this, the graduate program director will encourage graduate students to request more opportunities to guest lecture when they TA courses, teach their own courses as a Teaching Fellow in the department, and take part in the Apprenticeship in College Teaching program at Boston College (all of these options have been available to students for many years). Moreover, the graduate program director will encourage faculty to allow Teaching Assistants a greater number of opportunities to guest lecture.
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