All exams and quizzes are short answer essay and are based on focus questions distributed to students before each new section of material is presented. A review style term paper, on a memory topic of the students choice, is also required. The focus of this course is the role of human cognition in the workplace and on questions about optimizing education and training. Class time is spent partly in lecture and partly in guided discussion. The emphasis is be on active learning skills such as interpreting primary source material and conducting cognitive interviews.
Students also select topics of interest to pursue on their own resulting in a final paper.
Grades will be based in part on the final paper, and partly on small weekly assignments throughout the quarter.