Karen-Inge Karstoft, Department of Psychology
Abstract
A new course in Psychological Assessment: From student feedback to course redesign
Background
The mandatory Psychology MA-course in Psychological Assessment calls for a redesign for two reasons: First, student evaluations have pointed to course non-alignment and structural challenges, and second, it has to go down from the current 10 ECTS to 7.5 ECTS. The current project combines student evaluations from the last two years to identify gaps and misalignments and propose how to address those in a new course design.
Methods
From the last two years’ student evaluations, the project will analyze Likert-rated questions about alignment as well as free-text comments pertaining to course (non)alignment.
Results
While many students are happy with the course content and structure, it seems clear that alignment across course elements poses a problem for the students’ learning outcomes.
Tentative conclusions and way ahead
To achieve the goals of ECTS-reduction and increased alignment, the following steps will be taken: 1) Number of lectures will be reduced from 14 to 12; 2) Classroom teaching will reduced from 9 x 3 to 6 x 3 hours; 3) Classroom teaching will follow the same order for everyone, and it will match the topics of the lectures, 4) For each classroom teaching, there will be one psychological test, and there will be one specific psychometric concept in focus, which will be related to that test.