Using Standards - Develop Programs
An academic program is asked to develop a variety of learning outcomes
for its students that will include information literacy. The program
reviews their entire curriculum and identifies those courses that are
vehicles for teaching these outcomes. The program should guarantee that
the outcomes are taught in one course and further developed or reinforced
in the following courses; a class in which the skills are reinforced
or refined has a prerequisite course that teaches these skills.
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Example - Psychology
Department
Example of partial Program Matrix: Outlines what all the
learning outcomes are:
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PSYCH
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| Speaking |
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| Computer Requirements |
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| Information Literacy (see additional chart below) |
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| Understanding of psychological tests and measures |
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| History of Psychology |
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| Citizenship |
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| Ethics |
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| Multicultural Sensitivity |
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Matrix of Information Literacy Learning Outcomes
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PSYCH
Intro Psych
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PSYCH
Research Methods
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PSYCH
Intro
Statistics
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PSYCH
Computer Apps.
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Standard One: KNOW
Students in psychology must be able to identify the key issues in the
discipline and place research questions in an appropriate theoretical
context. |
Taught
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Developed
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Reinforced
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Reinforced
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Standard Two: ACCESS
Students must be proficient6 at finding information in library databases,
the internet and locating information from community resources. |
Basic Intro
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Taught
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Reinforced
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Developed
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Standard Three: EVALUATE
Students in psychology must be able to critically evaluate information
and discern credible from non-credible material. This is especially
true for pop psychology from the many talk shows and magazines that
claim expertise in these topics. |
Taught
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Developed
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Reinforced
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Reinforced
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Standard Four: USE
Students must be able to collect, organize, and present information to
others in clear and coherent forms – whether written or orally. |
Basic
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Developed
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Standard Five: ETHICAL/LEGAL
Students must have a thorough understanding of APA ethical guidelines
in the design, data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting
of research. |
Taught
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Reinforced
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Reinforced
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Using Standard Five as an example
Each course focuses on specific learning outcomes from this standard.
The Intro course stresses plagiarism (Outcome
2F) and APA Style Manual (Outcome
3A) when student write their term paper.
The research methods course teaches them issues surrounding research
with human subject (Outcome
2G).This is reinforced in the other two courses in various assignments
and discussions.
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