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ERIC Number: ED613696
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Aug
Pages: 70
Abstractor: ERIC
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APA Guidelines "for the" Undergraduate Psychology Major. Version 2.0
American Psychological Association
This revision of "APA Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major" (2006) represents a national effort to describe and develop high-quality undergraduate programs in psychology. "Guidelines 2.0" grew out of an expectation expressed in the first iteration of the "Guidelines" that policy documents on curricular matters should be living documents--meaning that the recommendations must be systematically revised over time to ensure their relevance. The task force charged with the revision of "Guidelines 2.0" examined the success of implementing the original document and made changes to reflect emerging best practices and to integrate psychology's work with benchmarking scholarship in higher education. "Guidelines 2.0" captures a set of optimal expectations for performance by undergraduates who are engaged in the study of psychology. The document outlines five broad goals and corresponding student learning outcomes that represent reasonable departmental expectations for the undergraduate psychology major across different kinds of educational contexts. The selection of the five goals and corresponding student learning outcomes reflects emerging best practices from the scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology as well as the experiences reported from academic program reviewers. [This revision was written by the APA Board of Educational Affairs Task Force on Psychology Major Competencies (2012).]
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Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Psychological Association
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