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A note on the historical literacy of first‐year graduate students in psychology
Author(s) -
Punches Alan,
Viney Wayne
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198601)22:1<64::aid-jhbs2300220108>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - history of psychology , psychology , graduate students , resource (disambiguation) , literacy , graduate education , psychology, philosophy and physiology , critical psychology , medical education , pedagogy , social science , mathematics education , asian psychology , school psychology , applied psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , medicine , computer network , computer science
First‐year graduate students enrolled in a required graduate course in the history of psychology were tested for their familiarity with seventy‐six eminent contributors to psychology and thirteen research and library sources. The data indicate that the students were poorly informed about names in the history of psychology and basic historical resource tools. Students who had previously completed an undergraduate course in the history of psychology fared better than those who had no such course. Nevertheless, the undergraduate course alone may not be sufficient to ensure the development of basic historical literacy.