ASSESSMENTS

Psych One carefully creates assessments that engage students’ critical thinking and promote a deep understanding of the material
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Assessments in Psych One are designed to teach as well as to measure knowledge.

• Weekly, low-stakes quizzes allow students to reinforce their learning and practice for exams. Frequent testing has been shown by numerous studies to improve long-term retention of material through retrieval practice.
• Three exams give students a chance to show and reinforce their knowledge through multiple choice questions (written to test higher-level knowledge and application) and short essays.
  
• Written and video/podcast assignments give students an opportunity to focus on research design and science communication. In these assignments, students focus on how laboratory research is described in the media, use published research to address problems they care about, and communicate about human behavior. Students receive guidance and feedback on each of these assignments from their Teaching Fellows (TFs).