To assess the effectiveness of instruction in psychology, we developed a means of testing student learning that includes questions from all areas of psychology in many test forms at minimal cost. Students are tested when they begin the first psychology course, as seniors, and twice between. Three pretest–posttest studies showing evidence of learning in individual courses and cumulative learning across courses are reported.
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