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Assessment of Quantitative Reasoning in
Applied Psychology at Portland State University

Robert R. Sinclair, Ph.D., Dalton Miller-Jones, Ph.D., Jennifer Sommers, M.A.

Portland State University

Department of Psychology

Table 1

Psychology Majors’ and Non-majors’ Quantitative Literacy Performance

Quantitative Literacy Subscales

Proportion of Questions Correctly Answered

Psychology Majors

Non-Majors

High Challenge*

50%

N=270

37%

N = 482

Low Challenge*

60%

N=270

50%

N = 482

Statistics*

70%

N=270

57%

N = 482

Research Design*

57%

N=270

46%

N = 482

Psychological Measurement*

43%

N=268

34%

N = 480

Total*

57%

N=270

46%

N = 481

Assessment of Quantitative Reasoning in Applied Psychology at Portland State University

Table 1

Psychology Majors’ and Non-majors’ Quantitative Literacy Performance

50%

60%

70%

57%

43%

57%

Assessment of Quantitative Reasoning in
Applied Psychology at Portland State University