Student Outcomes Attainment for BS Psychology AY 2016 – 2017

This research aims to assess the Student Outcomes (SO) with specific Performance Indicators (PI) for the Psychology graduates for AY 2016-2017. These SOs were formulated as part of the Outcome Based Education (OBE) and are identified as learnings and abilities that the students should be able to exhibit upon the time of graduation. This endeavor mainly used quantitative method, specifically descriptive research which utilized student’s final grades as the primary numerical data. The weighted mean of each Performance Indicator was also averaged to get the total attainment for each student outcome. Results showed that the graduates in the academic year 2016 – 2017, got the highest attainment for the Student Outcome D or the graduate’s ability to tally, encode, compute, interpret and analyze numerical data using their knowledge of statistics of 87%. The weighted mean of the student’s final grades on the professional subjects under all performance indicators under SO D is 87%. Lowest ranking Student Outcome is the ability to develop and sustain arguments about established principles in Psychology and other related fields with an overall computed mean of 84%. The target attainment of 75% has been met on all student outcomes and all the performance indicators.

Keywords – Psychology, Student outcomes, Performance indicators