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Quantitative Reasoning: An Overview, Marsha Davidson, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A 'White Paper' that defines quantitative reasoning and discusses policy implications of QR for higher education.

Brief 8: Graduate Preparation Of Student Affairs Staff: What's Needed, New England Resource Center For Higher Education, University Of Massachusetts Boston

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

The Student Affairs profession has changed significantly. Is graduate training keeping up? Do young Student Affairs professionals know what to expect once they get to campus? Members of NERCHE’s Student Affairs Think Tank met to discuss the relationship between graduate training and the workplace.

Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1998 In 1999 : Activities And Aspirations, Sue Fullarton

LSAY Cohort Reports

This report examines in detail the activities and aspirations of one of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth (LSAY) program’s longitudinal cohorts at a single point in time. In this case the cohort is the national sample of Year 9 students who were in Year 9 in Australian secondary schools in 1998, and the reference period is 1999.

2000-01 (3 Quarters & Aya) Sch & Fte Faculty Reports, Ernest Sams

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Student Credit Hours; GUR Courses; Sections; FTE Faculty Allocated and Used; Compare with 1 year ago; Measures per FTE Faculty.

Western Washington University Gender Equity Salary Study, Carl Simpson

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

The possible effects of gender on 2000-2001 salary among all full-time WWU faculty.

Access To Educational Opportunities For Latino Students In Four Massachusetts School Districts, Carole C. Upshur, Rodolfo R. Vega, Natalie Carithers, Charles Jones, Dale Lucy-Allen, Tatjana Meschede, Charles Ndungu

Gastón Institute Publications

This report was prompted by the pressing concerns over the high failure rates of Latino students on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam. While 27% of White students failed the English portion of the MCAS test and 38% failed the Mathematics portion in 2000, the corresponding rates for Latino students were 66% and 79% respectively (Massachusetts Department of Education, 2000a). There is a great urgency to understand why Latino students score substantially behind students from other racial/ethnic groups. This urgency stems from the reality that students currently enrolled in the 10th grade will be required to pass this exam …

Banner Ads: Dead Or Just Reincarnated?, Michelle B. Kunz, Peggy Osborne, Ron G. Cheek

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

There are currently five main ways to advertise on the web: banner ads, direct e -mail, sponsorship, keyword, and link strategies such as micro-sites. Banners ads and e-mail have been touted a great deal in the media. This paper will examine banner ads, and their impact on online advertising.

Are Satisfied Customers Sticky Customers?, Michelle B. Kunz

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

This paper proposes to examine the influence of customer service and customer satisfaction of online shopping, and to examine if there is a relationship with developing customer loyalty or "stickiness." It is proposed to integrate use of Lee~<; Internet Customer Satisfaction Model.

The Western Scholar, Editors

WKU Scholar

No abstract provided.

Codebook: The Lsay 1998 Year 9 Sample Wave 3 (2000) Technical Report No. 24, Kylie Hillman

LSAY Technical Reports

The 1998 Year 9 Cohort (Y98) In 1998, a nationally representative sample of approximately 14,000 Year 9 students was selected to form the second cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth. The sample was constructed by randomly selecting two Year 9 classes from a sample of schools designed to represent state and sector. Reading and numeracy tests were administered to students in their schools to provide information on early school achievement for use in later analyses of educational and labour market participation. Students also completed a background questionnaire about their educational and vocational plans and attitudes to school. Details …

Classroom And School Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievement: A Comparative Study Of The Us And Australia Using Timss, Stephen Lamb, Sue Fullarton

TIMSS Australia Monograph Series

Recent work on differences in mathematics achievement has highlighted the importance of classroom, teacher and school factors. The present study used data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to look at student, classroom and school factors influencing mathematics achievement in the United States (US) and Australia. It found that classroom differences account for about one-third of the variation in student achievement in the United States and over 0ne-quarter in Australia. Much of the classroom variation was due to compositional and organisational factors. This has important implications for policy regarding the improvement of mathematics achievement in schools.

Five-Year Follow-Up Of The Class Of 1993: Alumni Satisfaction, Pamela Jull, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A summary of findings from alumni surveys focusing on satisfaction with WWU one- and five-years after graduation.

Analysis Of The Change In Math Placement Test Instruments, Sharon Schmidtz, Carl Simpson

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

In May of 2000 a new Math Placement Test (MPT) instrument was put into use and new cut-off scores inplemented. This report analyses the effectiveness of this change.

Five-Year Follow-Up Of The Class Of 1993: Advanced Education, Pamela Jull, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A summary of findings from alumni surveys focusing on post-bach education one- and five-years after graduation.

Enrollment Report - Spring 2001, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Enrollment Reports

The Enrollment Report provides administrative and delivery-site information on enrollment headcount and student credit hours, as well as the demographic characteristics of enrolled students. The purpose of this profile is to provide the undergraduate and graduate enrollments and student credit hour information by college or equivalent academic unit, class, gender and ethnicity.

The Support Service Crisis: A Misnomer, Gary R. Brown

Office of Academic Innovation Publications

Discussion of issues related to perceptions of technology support in education by faculty and administrators. The article focuses on research and studies by Gilbert, Wharton, Edutech and Educause.

Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 6 (2000) Technical Report No. 25, Kylie Hillman

LSAY Technical Reports

The 1995 Year 9 Cohort (Y95) In 1995, a nationally representative sample of approximately 13,000 Year 9 students was selected to form the first cohort of the new Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth program. The sample was constructed by randomly selecting two Year 9 classes from a national sample of 300 schools designed to represent state and sector. Reading and numeracy tests were administered to students in their schools to provide information on early school achievement for use in later analyses of educational and labour market participation. Students also completed a background questionnaire about their educational and vocational plans and …

An Examination Of Student Achievement In Michigan Charter Schools, Randall W. Eberts, Kevin M. Hollenbeck

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Since their inception in 1991, the number of and the student enrollment in charter school have burgeoned. However, little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. Proponents hypothesize direct and indirect positive impacts of charter schools on student achievement. The direct effect is through the restructuring of teaching and learning processes. The indirect effect operates through peer effects on learning and through the market forces of competition. This paper focuses on student achievement in charter schools in Michigan. The analyses presented here suggest that students attending charter schools in Michigan are not reaching the same levels of …

Classroom Scheduling Recommendations, Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Western is experiencing a classroom space crunch. Recommendations of classroom scheduling working group.

A Model Of Academic Program Review For Program Improvement, Azat Muradov

Master's Capstone Projects

The purpose is to develop a model of academic program review for program improvement and determine the implications of this model for institutionalization at Turkmen higher education institutions. The study builds on the communalities in institutional approaches relative to designing, conducting and using program review at selected public universities in the United States. The study is primarily concerned with institutional approaches that are oriented towards improving academic programs.

Communalities in improvement-oriented academic program reviews share earlier findings in the research. In the reviewed documents, the key role belonged to the program individuals. Other characteristics included facilitating faculty participation in all …

Kinsey Dialogue Series #3: Landscaping The Learning Environment To Create A Home For The Complex Mind, Jan Visser

Participatory Research & Practice

I am going to use the opportunity presented by the 2001 David Kinsey Lecture to bring together some of the ideas expressed in my recent work, and to reflect on my decades-long experience in creating the conditions for the development of learning in an international context that experience, and my reflections on it, has led me to recognize that learning is an immensely more complex phenomenon than most of our current practice to promote and facilitate it would have us believe. Consequently, I have come to the conclusion that the complex human mind is poorly at home in much of …

Landscaping The Learning Environment To Create A Home For The Complex Mind, Jan Visser

Participatory Research & Practice

I am going to use the opportunity presented by the 2001 David Kinsey lecture to bring together some ideas expressed in m recent work and to reflect on my decades-long experience in creating the conditions for the development of learning in an international context. That experience, and my reflections on it, has led me to recognize that learning is an immensely more complex phenomenon than most of our current practice to promote and facilitate it would have us believe. Consequently, I have come to the conclusion that the complex human mind is poorly at home in much of the environment …

Finance 2001-02, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Finance

IPEDS Finance annual report contains the following information: • Revenues by source (e.g., tuition and fees, government, private gifts) • Expenses by function (e.g., instruction, research, plant maintenance and operation) • Scholarships, physical plant assets and indebtedness • Assets, liabilities and net assets • Different formats are used based on the institution’s accounting standards

Human Resources, Staff Information, 2001-02, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Human Resources

IPEDS Human Resources annual report contains the following information: • Employees by primary occupational activity, faculty status, full and part time (collected separately for medical schools) • Full-time instructional staff by academic rank, gender and function • Total salary outlay and number of months covered by academic rank and gender

Fall Enrollment 2001-02, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Fall Enrollment

IPEDS Fall Enrollment annual report contains the following information: • Full- and part-time fall enrollments by level, by race/ethnicity and gender of student • Number of students engaged in distance education, by level and location • Age distributions by student level (odd-numbered years) • State of residence of first-time first-year students (even-numbered years) • Total number of students in the entering class • Fall-to-fall retention rates of full-time and part-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students (less than 4-year institutions), and first-time bachelor’s degree-seeking students (4-year institutions)

Graduation Rates 2001-02, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

IPEDS Graduation Rate

IPEDS Graduation Rates annual report contains the following information: • Numbers of students entering the institution as full-time, first-time, degree or certificate-seeking in a particular year (cohort), by race/ethnicity and gender • Number completing within 150% of normal time to program completion • Number transferred to other institutions • Developed to help institutions comply with requirements of Student Right-to-know • Worksheets are provided to calculate rates

Who Owns Our Values? Back To School, John Strassburger

Publications

This is the sixth in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.

Educating The Educator: A Critical Study Of The Attitudes And Experiences Of Teacher Education Students, Diana L. Haleman

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A paper presented by Diana L. Haleman at the 2001 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting on the experiences of teacher education students in a regional Appalachian university.

Explaining Accommodation And Resistance In Kentucky, Rebecca S. Katz, Stephen Whitaker

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

Article written by Rebecca S. Katz and Stephen Whitaker and published in the 2001 issue of Crime, Law & Social Change, pages 295-318.

School Counselor Satisfaction With Their Graduate Training: A Survey Of East Kentucky Counselors, Trey J. Fitch

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

A report submitted by Trey J. Fitch to the Research and Creative Productions Committee in 2001 on the many different roles of school counselors in Eastern Kentucky.