North Carolina A&T State University
Department of Psychology
Senior Exit Survey
Please take just few minutes to complete this Senior Exit Survey. Your honest feedback is valuable, and it will enable us to engage in continuous quality control of the Psychology Department. This is an anonymous survey. Do not enter your name or any kind of personal identifying information on this survey.
Gender: Female Male
Age:
Ethnicity: Black / African American White Hispanic Asian Indian Other
1. What year and semester did you enter the University? Year: Semester: Fall Spring Summer
2. What year and semester did or will you complete your degree? Year: Semester: Fall Spring Summer
3. Are you a non-traditional (older than the usual college age) student? Yes No
4. Are you the first in your immediate family to attend college? Yes No
5. Did you take a psychology course in high school? Yes No
If no, was a psychology course offered at your high school? Yes No
6. Did you enter as a psychology major? Yes No
If no, what was your original major?:
If no, what was your classification when you changed your major to psychology?: Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
7. Did you transfer to A&T from another college? Yes No
If yes, what college?:
8. In retrospect, coming out of high school, how prepared were you for college?
Not Well Prepared 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Well Prepared
9. What was your high school GPA (four point scale)?:
10. On average, how many credit hours were you able to complete per semester?:
11. Did you attend summer school? Yes No
If yes, how many sessions did you attend?:
12. On average, how many hours did you work (job) per week?:
13. Did you receive financial aid? Yes No
14. How much loan money did you have to borrow?
15. What is your current overall GPA?
16. What is your current psychology GPA?
17. On average, how many hours a week did you study?
18. Overall, how would you rate yourself as a student?: Outstanding Very Good Average Below Average Poor
19. What are your immediate plans after you graduate?
Work Only Graduate School in Psychology Law School Medical School Other School Take some time off to work, and then go back to school I do not know Other:
20. If you plan to attend graduate school in psychology, what level and specialty area do you plan to pursue?
Level: (select one): Ph.D. Psy.D. MA/MS
Specialty: (select ones): Clinical Psychological Counseling School Counseling Rehabilitation Counseling
Industrial / Organizational Forensic School Psychology Developmental Social Neuropsychology
Biological Neuroscience Psychometrics / Statistics Other
21. If you plan to attend graduate school immediately after graduation, do you plan to attend a graduate program at A&T? Yes No
If yes, what program?
22. Have you already been accepted to a graduate school? Yes No
If yes, what school, level, specialty area?:
23. If you plan to work immediately after you graduate, do you already have a job? Yes No
If yes, what industry and job title? What will be your yearly gross salary?
24. If you plan to work immediately after you graduate, do you plan to work in the psychology field? Yes No
If yes, what type of job / title? What will be your gross salary?
25. If you pan to work immediately after you graduate, yet you do not have a job, what do you expect your annual gross salary to be once you find a job?
Expected Salary?:
26. How would you rate the availability (offerings) of required psychology courses?
Outstanding Very Good Average Below Average Poor
27. How would you rate the availability (offerings) of the psychology courses of interest, that served as psychology electives?
28. Which psychology courses do you wish had been offered more often, that were not offered every semester?
29. Overall, the quality of instruction in psychology courses was:
30. Overall, the quality of instruction for non-psychology courses was:
31. Overall, the difficulty (course content) of the psychology courses was:
Extremely Difficult Very Difficult Difficult Average Difficulty Below Average Difficulty Extremely Easy
32. Overall, the professors were:
What are the characteristics of an outstanding professor, and which teaching techniques, activities, styles, etc., helped you learn the best?
33. To what degree do you wish your psychology courses were challenging?
I wish they had been: Extremely Easy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Challenging
34. To what degree do you wish your psychology professors were challenging?
35. Which courses did you find most difficult and why?
36. What was your ONE absolutely most difficult psychology course:
328-Psychology of Success 240-Freshmen Seminar 242-Information Processing 321-Elementary Psychology 322-Psychological Statistics Class 323-Psychological Statistics Lab 324-Developmental Psychology 420-Social Psychology 434-Abnormal Psychology 439-Theories of Personality 440-Research Methods Class 441-Research Methods Lab 445-Industrial Psychology 460-Learning and Motivation 461-Memory and Cognition 462-Psychopharmacology 463-Sensation and Perception 500-Independent Study 501-Special Topic in Developmental Psychology 502-Advanced Statistics and Computer Applications 504-Cross-Cultural Psychology 505-Internship in Psychology I 506-Internship in Psychology II 510-Psychological Perspectives in Hip Hop 530-Forensic Psychology 540-Biological Psychology 542-Seminar in Psychology 544-Psychological Testing 545-History and Systems of Psychology 550-Animal Behavior 551-Psychology of Women 553-Cognitive Neuroscience 560-Black Psychology 565-Neuropsychology 625-Clinical Psychology 644-Applied Health Psychology 645-Behavior Modification
37. The likelihood that you had difficulty in that ONE most difficult course listed above, was due to:
Course Content: Unlikely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Likely
Poor Professor: Unlikely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Likely
Poor Study Habits: Unlikely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Likely
38. Overall, faculty provided independent study research opportunities for the students:
Excellent Very Good Good Fair Poor None
39. Overall, the faculty provided internship opportunities for the students:
40. How would you rate the quality of the classrooms and other facilities (e.g. labs) in the psychology department:
Very Bad 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Excellent
41. How would you rate the average psychology class size:
Too Small 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Too Big
42. Overall, the faculty advisors were:
Excellent Very Good Good Fair Poor
43. How confident are you that your overall education at A&T has prepared you for your future career?
Extremely Confident Very Confident Confident Fairly Confident Not Confident
44. If you plan to pursue a career in psychology, how confident are you that the Psychology Department at A&T has prepared you for your future?
45. How satisfied are you with you overall education as a psychology major at A&T?
Very Unsatisfied 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Satisfied
46. Please list three positive things about the Psychology Department that you like to see continued.
47. Please list three negative things about the Psychology Department that you like to see changed.
48. If you had to start college all over again, would you select psychology as a major? Yes No
If not psychology, what major and why?:
49. Please provide additional information that will help us continuously improve the Psychology Department.