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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
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Course Prefix, Number and Title: PSY 275-Undergraduate Research
Division/Unit: Division of Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Paula Frioli-Peters
Contributing Faculty: Paula Frioli-Peters
Academic Year: 2012-2013 (Spring 2013)
Complete and electronically submit your assessment report to your Department Chair/Coordinator/Director. As needed, please attach supporting documents and/or
a narrative description of the assessment activities in your course.
Course Outcomes
In the boxes below, summarize
the outcomes assessed in your
course during the year.
Outcome #1
Students will describe and
complete the process involved in
getting approval from
Institutional Research Board to
conduct research with human
subjects.
Outcome# 2
Students will utilize basic
research skills to perfonn an
experiment with human subjects,
including literature, review,
research design, data collection,
and interpretation.
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
Effect on Course
In the boxes below, summarize
the methods used to assess course
outcomes during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
the resu Its of your assessment
activities during the last year.
In the boxes below, summarize
how you are or how you plan to
use the results to improve student
learning.
Based on the results of this
assessment, will you revise your
outcomes? If so, please
summarize how and why in the
boxes below:
Assessed via written assignments
and questions on a quizlexam.
Students' overall average was
90% on this assignment. The
concept was well discussed in
class and has been previously
introduced to students during the
Research Method course (PSY
240) that is pre-requisite for PSY
275.
Results will be shared with PSY
240 instructor to reinforce the
way the concept is taught.
Understanding ofiRB is essential
for this course and instructor
needs to keep this assignment at
a mastery level of 80%.
Student's overall average on
articles summaries was 85%.
For data collection and analysis
the overall average of students
was 65%, with this low average
probably due to inability to work
in group.
For future semesters the
instructor will describe the data
collection and analysis
assignment with more rigorous
details and enforce to students
that data collect has to be done in
advance to give students more
time to develop communication
skills, work in group
responsibility, and critical
thinking skills.
With more rigorous writing
assignment the instructor will be
able to expect more from
students and students will have
more time and opportunity to
develop data collection, analysis
and critical thinking skills with
instructor supervision.
Students were assessed through a
I to 2 pages writing assignment
where they were expected to
identify the IRB and all the steps
involved in the process of getting
approved to perfonn research
with human subjects.
Assessed by research reports
with collected and analyzed data
via a rubric designed by the
instructor.
For the literature review students
were expected to find at least I 0
peer reviewed articles, related to
their topic of choice, that were
published in professional journals
and write one page summary of
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TMCC
COURSE ASSESSMENT REPORT (CAR)
Course Prefix, Number and Title: PSY 275-Undergraduate Research
Division/Unit: Division of Liberal Arts
Submitted by: Paula Frioli-Peters
Contributing Faculty: Paula Frioli-Peters
Academic Year: 2012-2013 (Spring 2013)
Course Outcomes
Assessment Measures
Assessment Results
Use of Results
Effect on Course
each article to submit to the
instructor and orally present the
article to the rest of the class.
Data collection and analysis was
assessed in mid-tenn exam and
PowerPoint presentation in class.
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Please enter your name and date below to confinn you have reviewed this report:
Title
Name
Date
Dean
Armida Fruzzetti
5/6/2014
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Jane Nichols
Department Chair/Coordinator/Director
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