Psychology Students Feedback on the Overall Programme Structure in ODL Context: A Case Study at OUM

• Main Authors: Wong , Huey Siew, Fatimah Yusooff, Mohd Tajudin Md Ninggal
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: BF Psychology; LB2300 Higher Education; LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education; LC5800 Distance education
• Online Access: http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1412/1/library-document-1412.pdf; http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1412/
• Institution: Open University Malaysia

Generally, the study of students’ feedback may serve various purposes such as for programme improvement; accountability and decision making; judgments of merit, worth, and significance of the programme. The ultimate goal of this study is to enhance the effectiveness of online study and delivery. The aim of this paper is to study psychology students’ feedback on the overall structure of the Bachelor of Psychology programme offered in OUM. The specific objectives of the study are to determine whether the curriculum matches their needs, whether they can pursue a profession after graduation, whether they are satisfied with the courses, and whether they learned psychology courses as planned. This is a descriptive study and case study technique was utilised. The sample consists of 436 psychology active students throughout the country. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data and the questionnaires were distributed via Google Drive. The Cronbach Alpha for the instrument was 0.79. The study results indicated that students’ feedback was very positive with the overall structure of the psychology programme. The data shows that the mean score for all the items fall into the high category. The score mean ranges from 3.806 to 4.164. This finding indicates that the psychology programme offered in OUM is satisfactory and well accepted by the students.