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Spanish Instruction, Carla J. (Carla Jennings) Manuel

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

For my Honor's Senior project, I chose to compile my teaching experience of beginning level Spanish. The note book I compiled includes lessons plans, worksheets, exams, and my insights on what I have learned through this project. The notebook's construction has given me the chance to reflect on the magnitude of work required for teaching and the accomplishments I have achieved over the course of three months. Throughout the quarter I have worked on lesson plans, invented a midterm exam, created a grading system, and experimented with different methods of material presentation. During the last three months, I have relied …

Klipsun Magazine, 1996, Volume 26, Issue 03 - March, Kristi Kiteley

Klipsun Magazine

What is the purpose of getting a college education? Why are we here? There comes a point in every students college career when we ask ourselves questions like these. It may be that we are here because it was what people expected us to do. Maybe we always planned on going to college and never thought otherwise. Or, maybe we are here because we want to earn more money or make a better future for ourselves.

Whatever the reason we came here, we are all trying to accomplish the same thing. We want to get an education. In the movie …

Wwu Faculty Survey Concerning Semester Versus Quarter Schedules, Linda D. (Linda Darlene) Clark, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Carl Simpson

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Should Western change to some form of semester system? At the request of the Faculty Senate, this question, among many others, was asked of Western faculty in the Faculty Survey Concerning Semester versus Quarter Schedules, administered by the Office of Survey Research and analyzed in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Assessment and Testing. This Focus publication reports findings from that survey, conducted during the fall quarter of 1995.

Where Western Students Live And Study, Linda D. (Linda Darlene) Clark, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Carl Simpson

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

During fall quarter, 1994, the Office of Survey Research conducted a telephone survey of in-coming freshmen and new transfers. A total of 322 freshmen and 270 new transfers participated. Among the survey's items, students were asked to describe the courses in which they were registered, as well as their use of and satisfaction with academic advising for their major, their transition to Western, and their living and studying arrangements. The topic of this issue of Focus is where students live and study, and their levels of satisfaction with those living and studying conditions.

A Comparative Profile Of Enrollment Characteristics Of University 101 Students, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Joseph E. Trimble, Jacqueline M. Andrieu-Parker

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

This study was conducted to determine what, if any, impact the course University 101 may have had on the students who took it. In this study, for each year that University.101 was offered two matched and proportionally sampled groups were created from Registrar files: students who took University 101 and students who did not. Only students with native admit status were included; in other words, only students who had entered Western as first-time, in-coming freshmen. In each year sampled, there was no statistical difference. By age, gender, or ethnicity. As much as possible, descriptive variables such as high school grade …

Wwu Lifestyles Project Follow-Up: Patterns Of Alcohol And Drug Consumption And Consequences Among Western Washington University Students, Patricia M. Fabiano, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Scott C. (Scott Carl) Bates, Joseph E. Trimble

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Executive Summary: In response to both internal and national findings and concerns, the first Western Washington University Lifestyles Project Survey of alcohol and drug usage among Western students was conducted in 1992 as part of the University's on-going effort (a) to investigate students' college experience both in and out of the classroom; (b) to enhance those experiences which lead to personal and academic success; and (c) to reduce risk factors jeopardizing student success. The 1995 WWU Lifestyles Project Survey follow-up has the same goals as its predecessor. Both surveys were administered to random samples of students across all years in …

Klipsun Magazine, 1996, Volume 26, Issue 02 - January, Heather Kimbrough

Klipsun Magazine

''Many poets have said that love asks nothing, but I submit to you today that love demands everything."— Judge Donna Hitchens, Superior Court, Valentine’s Day, 1991

I ’ll admit it. I’m a quote person. I’ll read a great quote and immediately write it down and either hang it on a wall somewhere, tuck it in a notebook or write it in big bright letters on the side of an old pair of tennis shoes. No joke.

So, when I read the above quote, I grabbed the nearest scrap of paper and wrote with great flourish. And, after reading …

The Planet, 1996, Winter, Deanna Woolston, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

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Library Survey Students Entering Fall, 1996, Western Washington University. Office Of Survey Research

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A survey of Western libraries Freshmen intended to provide a base of information to help guide an in-depth assessment and planning effort aimed at improving Western's library system.

Library Survey Returning Students, Fall 1996, Western Washington University. Office Of Survey Research

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A survey of Western libraries intended to provide a base of information to help guide an in-depth assessment and planning effort aimed at improving Western's library system.

Institutional Assessment At Western Washington University For The 1995-1997 Biennium (January, 1996), Joseph E. Trimble

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

In identifying and organizing its research, program evaluation, and outcomes assessment activities Western Washington University's Office of lnstitutional Assessment and Testing (OIAT) strives to obtain and generate data and information that attempts to provide answers to the following fundamental questions: 1) What do we look like as an institution and how can we improve the quality of the academic and sociocultural climate? 2) What factors contribute to general and specific changes in Western students' attitudes, knowledge, and skills? 3) How can we enrich classroom and instructional experiences to advance and promote effective learning? 4) How successful is each component of …

A Community Of Learning, Keren Reith

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

All teachers possess a philosophy of education. The set of ideas under which every teacher operates is the springboard for their choices in the classroom, if only because the complex nature of education requires that we operate from a belief system about what we do and why we do it. Philosophy determines what materials we choose, what methods we use to teach them, and what kinds of rules we have for classroom management. A teacher's philosophy of education impacts his or her students in a thousand ways as it is tested and refined in the classroom. One cannot separate theory …