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Assessment of Student Skills and Abilities: A Critical Yet Unfulfilled Task

SSPA’s Speaker Series

Dr. Eric Landrum, Department of Psychology

Wednesday, April 11
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315

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Many disciplines have identified broad learning outcomes desired in social science graduates.

Many of these outcomes focus on skills; however, many faculty are preoccupied with the delivery of content without concern for retention.

The reverence of content over skills will be gently challenged during this presentation.

Additionally, the meaningful assessment of skills is woefully inadequate in many areas of undergraduate education, which complicates matters further. A clarion call is issued with specific needs identified–ultimately, it could (and should) be social scientists who save the day.

Interrogations, False Confessions and Actual Innocence

The SSPA Speaker Series will begin again on Wednesday, February 8.

Dr. Charles Honts from the Department of Psychology will present.  The event is free and open to the public. It will be held in the ILC Room 315 from 12:40 to 1:40 p.m.

Interrogations, False Confessions and Actual Innocence

The last 20 years have seen an ever increasing list of actual innocent individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes and who have been exonerated (primarily by DNA).

Examination of those cases has revealed a number of contributing factors, several of which fall within psychological
science (eyewitness identification, deception detection and interrogations/confessions).

Over the last 7 years Honts’ research has explored confession phenomena with juveniles.

That research produced some surprising findings that have implications for science, practice and policy.

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Women’s Attractions

Elizabeth Morgan, Department of Psychology, was quoted in a story in the Daily Mail about her research on heterosexual women’s same-sex attractions. More than half of women are attracted to other women – and it gets more pronounced as they get older. Read the story here.

Elizabeth Morgan – Psychology

Elizabeth Morgan, Chareen Snelson (Educational Technology) and Patt Elison-Bowers recently published a paper in the journal “Computers in Human Behaviors” that examines image and video disclosure of substance use on social media websites.

Elizabeth will be presenting three papers at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality annual conference in November. Two papers involve recently graduated undergraduate psychology majors as co-authors.

Patt Elison-Bowers – Psychology

Patt Elison-Bowers, Chareen Snelson (Educational Technology) and Elizabeth Morgan recently published a paper in the journal “Computers in Human Behaviors” that examines image and video disclosure of substance use on social media websites.

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