Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, Vol 11(3), Sep 2025, 363-375; doi:10.1037/stl0000355
The American Psychological Association skillful psychology student resource is increasingly important within psychology departments to help advance student career readiness. Since the publication of this resource, there have been several significant developments and resources to guide students in developing awareness about and keeping track of the skills developed in class and during their time as psychology majors. At the same time, a better understanding of how undergraduate psychology programs are systematically helping students to develop awareness of, track, and better communicate their career readiness skills is needed. The purpose of the present study is to describe the development and implementation of a program based on the skillful psychology student resource across our baccalaureate psychology program. Twenty-three faculty reviewed course syllabi from 21 classes (including all 10 required classes) taught within the psychology curriculum during the past 2 years and 130 students provided the end-of-year evaluation of our initiative. Faculty engagement and student feedback suggest the first phase of our initiative appears to be relatively successful. The majority of faculty who teach undergraduate classes completed reviews that indicate generally good coverage of the transferable skills across our curriculum. Additionally, the student feedback suggests that faculty are directly talking about our initiative and the specific skills in their classes. Suggestions for program implementation and improvement are provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)