SAUM Additional Online Case Studies & Appendices

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 2

Overall Research Methods Scores by Level of Progression Through the Major

 

Curriculum Stage

Proportion of Questions Correctly Answered

Majors

No Introductory Psychology Course Completed

52%

N = 5

One or Both Introductory Psychology Courses

56%

N = 150

Statistics and One or Both Introductory Psychology Courses

56%

N = 148

Statistics, One or Both Introductory Psychology Courses, and Research Methods

61%

N = 74

Total

57%

N = 270