national standards for psychological literacy and global citizenship

1. Background of the Fellowship
1.1. Context of the Fellowship
According to Cranney (2010) discipline leaders in psychology have identified two major
issues in undergraduate psychology education.
“The first relates to how the scientist-practitioner model bears on the nature of
undergraduate (UG) psychology education. . . . The second . . . relates to the
delineation, assessment and evaluation of academic standards. (p. 3)
In an effort to address the first of these issues, Cranney, in 2006, successfully applied for
an ALTC Associate Fellowship that had as its purpose:
the development of Graduate Attributes (GAs) and their associated Student Learning
Outcomes (SLOs) for UG Psychology, and
the embedding of these GAs into UG Psychology programs throughout Australia.
By the end of this Associate Fellowship, the GAs that Cranney had developed in
partnership with others in the discipline, had been incorporated into the Australian
Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) Standards (e.g., APAC, 2009; Voudouris,
2009) and they are currently evaluated during the APAC site-visit peer review process.
However, as Cranney (2010) acknowledged in her application for the current ALTC
Fellowship, the next steps in the further development of an UG Psychology curriculum to
address the two major issues identified above are to:
“develop guidelines for minimum levels of attainment of the SLOs, and strategies for
assessing and evaluating that learning.” (p. 3)
“develop a forward-looking, responsible, and evidence-based pedagogy for UG
psychology, to guide the achievement of Aim 1” (p. 3)
“develop networks of psychology educators, in particular an “UG Network” consisting
of UG program and first-year directors from every Department/School of Psychology
within Australia, to facilitate input to and engagement with the academic standards
and pedagogy aims of this initiative. (p. 4)
“couch these activities in continued two-way interaction with relevant international
and interdisciplinary bodies” (p. 4)
1.2. Nature of the Fellowship
This Fellowship sought to further develop:
academic standards for Undergraduate (UG) psychology education, in particular
academic standards for psychological literacy and global citizenship.
a forward looking, responsible and evidence based pedagogy for UG psychology
education
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