Student satisfaction at university is receiving increasing attention. While academic discipline
has been associated with student satisfaction in many studies, we found no previous …

Almost since its inception, the dominant narrative of modern psychology has embraced
positivism through its insistence that psychological science is objective, generalisable, and …

This book presents the findings and recommendations of the 2008 National Conference on
Undergraduate Education in Psychology. For this conference, 80 psychologists and other …

This cross‐sectional study examined student perceptions of psychology graduate attributes
(GA) and of psychological literacy (PL), which were expected and found to be significantly …

Assessing Teaching and Learning in Psychology: Current and Future Perspectives is
designed to be a helpful response to the assessment needs of psychology teachers …

Objective An educational bottleneck occurs when students enter a phase of their training in
which progression is highly competitive and determined by academic performance. We …

This paper outlines the background, process and outcomes for a project that delineated a
set of graduate attributes of the 4‐year Australian undergraduate psychology program. The …

There has been an ongoing debate about the content and purpose of undergraduate
education in psychology in New Zealand and Australia, specifically about the balance …

Unlike disciplines which focus on skill development from year one of a bachelor's degree,
training in psychology in Australia follows the scientist-practitioner model. According to this …

The scientist—practitioner model of training in psychology has been widely influential in the
development of undergraduate curricula in Australia. The model had its origins in post‐war …