graduate psychology skills website
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Website for Australian psychology staff and students. Help students develop their graduate skills and attributes and helps them to become work ready.TRANSCRIPT
Graduate Psychology Skills Australia
A website and resource for students and staff
Michelle Rose Avery
Deakin University
Officially launching the
Graduate Psychology Skills
Australia website
www.gpsaustralia.org.au
An open resource for
psychology students and
educators to foster the
development of graduate
skills
Created to ensure that valuable teaching and learning resources are shared and made available to all
Support the effective development and assessment of graduate skills:
1. A repository of resources and guides for educators.
2. Give any psych student the opportunity to take our graduate skills measure and to get real-time feedback.
3. Provide staff with student data, so they can track their students for T&L or research purposes.
4. Host a resource sharing tool that allows psych educators to share resources and activities.
The GPS Australia Public Website
Key information about graduate skills, the project and latest
news from the GPS Australia team.
Public website
Student portal
Staff portal
Profile
For important information – and
connect with professional
social networking
The GPS-Q is our self-report measure of graduate skill
acquisition.
Students can self-assess using the website and receive
feedback in real-time.
Portfolio
For curating and reflecting
on evidence of graduate
skills
The Student Portal - Summary
1. Create a profile
2. Take the GPS-Q and receive detailed feedback
3. Curate evidence of their graduate skill acquisition (portfolio)
4. Retake the GPS-Q to see change overtime
5. Share their development
GPS Australia ResourcesAim is to create a valuable learning and teaching resource repository for Australian
psychology educators.
• An innovative and effective problem-based tutorial approach
• A model for tutor training and professional development
• Guides for utilising peer- and self-assessment in the development of graduate skills
• Reflections on developing graduate skills in early years (1st year students)
• And more!
Share an Activity
Tool to allow you to upload and share your learning and teaching activities with your
colleagues
Student data is used to form their feedback and students can
choose to share their data, which may then be used by:
• GPS Australia for ongoing research
• Educators for T&L purposes or research purposes
Advice on Vertical Integration
Insights in how to vertically integrate and scaffold students’ development of
graduate skills across undergraduate year levels.
• simple resources and frameworks on incorporating the development of
psychology graduate skills within course offerings.
Assessing Graduate Psychology Skills
Course leaders can also use the Graduate Psychology Skills Questionnaire to
evaluate program learning objectives to inform curriculum enhancement.
We’ll let you know when all of the features are functional!
Thank you.
www.gpsaustralia.org.au