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Barry Perlman/Lee McCann

Psychology and Education
Students' Grades and Study Behaviors
SoTL Class 4 Project
Poster at the 2007 meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.

We studied undergraduate psychology students grades and their ratings of the helpfulness of study behaviors they used. On average students desired an AB (3.5 on a 4 point scale) and would have been satisfied with a B; 31% of students expressed satisfaction with a BC (2.5 on a 4-point scale) or lower. Overall their final grade was a BC, a B in non-Introductory courses. In every course but Introductory, students earn the grade they find satisfactory. Students study less than 4 hrs/week in these courses. Students rated only 7 of 59 behaviors as helping earn desired grades to a great extent; all involved basic studying. Students did not rate many potential useful behaviors highly.