Program: Psychology (PhD)
Degree: Doctorate
Date: Mon Jul 30, 2018 - 9:31:57 pm
1) Program Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs)
1. Developing knowledge and understanding: Demonstrates knowledge in one or more general subject areas related to, but not confined to, a specific area of interest.
(1. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge in one or more general subject areas related to, but not confined to, a specific area of interest.)
2. Developing knowledge and understanding: Demonstrates an understanding of research methodology and techniques specific to one�s field of study.
(2. Demonstrate understanding of research methodology and techniques specific to one’s field of study.)
3. Application (apply research methods; use critical thinking skills): Applies research methodology specific to one�s field of study.
(3. Apply research methodology and/or scholarly inquiry techniques specific to one’s field of study.)
4. Application (apply research methods; use critical thinking skills): Critically analyzes and synthesizes information and data related to one�s field of study.
(4. Critically analyze, synthesize, and utilize information and data related to one’s field of study.)
5. Communicate Effectively: Proficiently communicates and disseminates information in a manner relevant to the field.
(5. Proficiently communicate and disseminate information in a manner relevant to the field and intended audience.)
6. Conduct responsible, ethical research: Conducts research or projects as a responsible and ethical professional.
(6. Conduct research or projects as a responsible and ethical professional, including consideration of and respect for other cultural perspectives.)
7. Interact professionally: Interacts professionally with others.
(7. Interact professionally with others.)
8. Sociocultural and international awareness: Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of sociocultural and international diversity.
(7. Interact professionally with others.)
9. Sociocultural and international awareness: Understands the effects of culture on psychological processes and is able to apply this knowledge in research and practice.
(7. Interact professionally with others.)
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update asneeded.







3) Please review, add, replace, or delete the existing curriculum map.
- File (03/16/2020)
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.





5) Does the program have learning achievement results for its program SLOs? (Example of achievement results: "80% of students met expectations on SLO 1.")(check one):




6) Did your program engage in any program learning assessment activities between June 1, 2015 and October 31, 2018?


7) What best describes the program-level learning assessment activities that took place for the period June 1, 2015 to October 31, 2018? (Check all that apply.)







8) Briefly explain the assessment activities that took place.
1. The department graduate studies committee created and discussed program learning assessment procedures including SLOs, evaluation rubrics and curriculum map.
2. The department conducts annual student surveys.
9) What types of evidence did the program use as part of the assessment activities checked in question 7? (Check all that apply.)





















10) State the number of students (or persons) who submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
1. IRB approvals are required for all students who conduct research that involve human subjects.
2. Oral defenses are required for all thesis proposal, thesis, dissertation proposal, and dissertation defenses.
3. Portfolio of student work is required for all clinical students.
4. Comprehensive exams are required for all students.
5. clinical practicum and internship are required for all clinical students.
6. Coommittee members of thesis/dissertation are required to complete online evaluation of student thesis, dissertation, and oral defense, after student defenses.
7. Faculty members are asked to include SLOs in all of their syllabi and the department curriculum map has been developed.
11) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)










12) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)







13) Summarize the results of the assessment activities checked in question 7. For example, report the percentage of students who achieved each SLO.
1. We have discussed and finalized the program learning SLOs and curriculum maps. Faculty are instructed to include SLOs in their syllabi.
2. student annual surveys are conducted to evaluate their academic progress.
3. Thesis and dissertation committee members are given evaluation surveys after each defense
14) What best describes how the program used the results? (Check all that apply.)









15) Please briefly describe how the program used the results.
The results are used to evaluate students' academic progress. Special attention and effort are paid to help students who fail to meet the evaluation standards and academic milestones.
16) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries? This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, and great achievements regarding program assessment in this reporting period.
While working on curriculum maps, we were able to streamline our academic goals and course offerrings, and deleted "dormant" courses that had not been offered for an extended period of time.
17) If the program did not engage in assessment activities, please justify.
NA