Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology: Ideas & Innovations Conference

该项目是一个为教学机构心理学系教师提供专业发展的会议。 这次会议被称为“心理学教学：思想和创新（TOP）。“心理学领域发展迅速，需要教师跟上教学创新的步伐，并为本科心理学专业提供替代职业道路。 近年来的变化是巨大的，导致非常不同的后本科环境。 学士学位毕业生成功找到与他们的心理学教育或进入研究生院相关的工作所需的知识和技能与几年前有很大不同。为了使教师跟上现代实践和问题，正在计划举行一系列TOP会议，以提供定期更新教师知识和技能的手段。 第一次TOP会议（由该补助金支持）旨在教育教师关于新的阿帕本科心理学课程指导方针，并指导教师评估学生学习成果的方法。 它还将通过根据需要向教师和学生提供援助，支持历史上代表性不足的群体的出席。 TOP会议的最终目标是为本科生提供一个展示研究论文的环境。 TOP管理人员追求的目标是培养对奖学金有深刻理解和欣赏的毕业生。

This project is a conference to provide professional development for faculty members in psychology departments in teaching institutions. The conference is called "Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations (TOP)." The field of psychology has grown rapidly, creating a need for teaching faculty to keep pace with new innovations in teaching and alternative career paths for undergraduate psychology majors. Changes in recent years have been substantial, resulting in very different post-undergraduate environment. The knowledge and skills that bachelors-level graduates need for success in finding work related to their psychology education or entry to graduate school are substantially different that a they were a few years ago. In order to bring teaching faculty up to date with modern practice and issues, a series of TOP conferences are being planned to provide a means for regular updating of faculty knowledge and skills. The first TOP conference (supported by this grant) is intended to educate teaching faculty about the new APA guidelines for undergraduate psychology programs and to instruct faculty in methods for assessing student learning outcomes. It will also support attendance by historically underrepresented groups by providing assistance to faculty and students based on need. The eventual goal of the TOP conferences is to also provide a setting for undergraduate students to present research papers. The TOP administrators are pursuing the goal of producing graduates who have a deep understanding of and appreciation for scholarship.