A curriculum matrix for psychology program review

Program review and outcomes assessment have become institutionalized as pro cesses to promote accountability for most psychology departments. It is fre quently problematic to demonstrate the relation between the content coverag e and assessment taking place in individual courses and the broad curricula r goals and objectives. We describe a matrix depicting the relation between desired perspectives, skills, knowledge, and attitudes and an undergraduat e psychology curriculum to address this problem. Such a matrix is valuable to detect critical omissions or unnecessary redundancies, to examine the co nsistency across sections qi individual courses in covering instructional o bjectives, and to compare faculty and Student impressions of course and cur ricular coverage.