[Psychmasters] Effective 1/18/2019

[Harman, Marsha]

Effective January 18, 2019, no comprehensive exam will be scheduled for any student who has not completed all courses related to the Exam with a grade on the Transcript.  Students will want to plan accordingly.

Comprehensive Exams in the General Psychology Program

If you are in our General Psychology Program, Comps are given three times a year on campus, typically on the second Thursdays of April, June, and November.  Check with the Coordinator of Graduate Studies for the exact date for a particular semester; when the annual convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association falls on the second Thursday of April, Spring Comps are often moved to the following week.  You are responsible for ascertaining the place, date, and time for your exam.  The examination will be made available to you in the office of the Coordinator of Psychology Graduate Studies on the appropriate Thursday.  If there are a majority of requests to email exams, all exams must be emailed at the same time to make sure all have access at the same time. Administration of the comps will be in the form of a take-home test, and you will sign out your test at that time.  You will be allowed 24 hours in which to complete your responses to the examination questions.  Your responses must be returned by the same time the next day.  Of course, this means that you are free, as in the real world, to consult reference materials in order to produce your responses.  With the additional time and resources, your responses will be held to a very high standard.  Your work, of course, is to be your own. You should not consult with colleagues about the answers.  You should also be aware that TurnItIn.com may be used to check for answers appropriated inappropriately.  Additionally, once you sign out the exam, you have agreed to take the exam and your resulting score will be part of your academic record.  Thus, if you decide that you would rather take the exam the following semester, you will still receive a score for the exam that you had checked out.
Doing poorly on one or more questions doesn't necessarily mean that you will not pass your exam, but it does make failure more likely.  After you submit your Comps, your answers are photocopied and disseminated to the faculty with your name removed.  Each of your answers is read by two members of the faculty, using a rubric. Scores are totaled for each question and decisions made as follows: - <18:  Failure; 18-24: Pass; 25-30: High Pass This criterion allows different trajectories to success.  Even if you do not do well on one question, you may pass if you do quite well on the remaining questions; alternatively, mediocre performance on all questions can also pass if there are no glaring weak spots. However, if you should fail one question by one faculty member, that question goes to a third reader.  If both readers/faculty members fail you, that question is failed.

IN ORDER TO TAKE THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM ON NOVEMBER 8, 2019, DR. HARMAN MUST HAVE YOUR RESERVATION BY 12:00 PM (NOON) ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2019


Marsha Harman
M. J. Harman, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Coordinator of Masters Programs
P. O. Box 2447
Department of Psychology & Philosophy
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341
936-294-3614 (leave a message here)
Lab - 936-294-4064 (try this number first)

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. ― Albert Einstein

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