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The Relationship Between Academic Performance, Students' Admission Status, And Selected Student Characteristics, Tracy Thorndike-Christ, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker
The Relationship Between Academic Performance, Students' Admission Status, And Selected Student Characteristics, Tracy Thorndike-Christ, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker
Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Executive Summary: This report presents the results of analyses of the relationships between a student's admission status, his or her grade point average and a variety of student characteristics, including gender, ethnicity, and age. The records for a sample of 982 Western Washington University upper-division students were provided by the University's Registrar for analysis. Upper-division undergraduates, defined as those having between 80 and 100 WWU credits, had an average GPA of 2.91. Students who began their higher education at Western (natives) were found to have a higher average GPA (2.96) than students who transfered from a two-year institution (2.85). These …
Statewide System-Level Indicators For Western Washington University: A Summary Profile, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker
Statewide System-Level Indicators For Western Washington University: A Summary Profile, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker
Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Executive Summary: In early September 1990, Hugh Walkup, the HEC Board's Associate Director for Institutional Research & Policy, asked all participants in the Assessment Task Force to respond to an outline of questions titled: "Statewide Indicators by Activity Category". This report is a summary of that information. The current list of statewide system-level indicators initially were developed by the assessment coordinators and the HEC Board staff. The indicators, while broad based, are intended to provide information that describes basic enrollment patterns for the state's six four-year institutions over a particular time frame. Moreover, the indicators are intended to portray a …
A Profile Of Selected Characteristics Of The Spring 1990 Western Washington University Graduating Class, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker, Joseph E. Trimble, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney
A Profile Of Selected Characteristics Of The Spring 1990 Western Washington University Graduating Class, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker, Joseph E. Trimble, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney
Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Summary and analysis of statistics for the 1990 Western graduating class.
A Profile Of Selected Characteristics Of The Spring 1990 Western Washington University Graduating Class, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker
A Profile Of Selected Characteristics Of The Spring 1990 Western Washington University Graduating Class, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker
Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Executive Summary: This report contains an analysis of two different sets of data: one obtained from the Registrar's student information data base, the other from the Office of Assessment and Testing's data base. From the Registrar's student information data base, the report finds that Western graduated 991 students in June of 1990. A majority were women (56%) and transfer students (56.2%); most were Caucasians (83%) and in-state residents (95%). Ethnic¬ minority students made up 5.8% of the graduates and were mostly transfers (70.2%). Three different GPA's were analyzed: high school, transfer, and university. June 1990 graduates had a mean high …