Quoting "G. Marc Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> On a related note, I was curious about how many of you
are in departments
> that require a testing/measurement course for your
undergraduates? I know
> this was a recommendation from APA a few years back,
but I was wondering
> how widespread it is now.
We require it for our B.S. in Mental Health majors, but
not for the B.A. degree. I have raised the possibility
of requiring it for all majors, but a majority in our
department disagreed.
I taught the course once, and used the Cohen and
Swerdlik (sp?) text (Mayfield Publishers). I liked it.
It was hard to determine the students' attitude toward
the text. I required a small empirical project for the
course. They had to select a trait, or attitude, devise
a scale to measure it, do a lit. search, collect data
using the scale, and do the standard reliability checks
on it (split-half; or test-retest). Some also collected
validity data (comparing with another scale, for
instance). I steered them toward manageable scales -
such as attitudes towards superstition, animal rights,
cheating in class, and so forth. It was a worthwhile
experience for most of the students.
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John W. Kulig
Plymouth State College
Plymouth NH 03264 USA
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~kulig
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