Document Type

Report

Publication Date

9-1-2006

Keywords

FIGs, Freshmen, Students, Interest, Groups

Abstract

INTRODUCTION In the fall, 2006, the Freshman Interest Group (FIGs) Program entered its eighth interation. To use assessment terminology, the program has passed through its beginning and emergent stages and has entered maturity. Its mission has been crafted, student learning outcomes (SLO's) have been identified, and its identity has solidified. (Please see Appendix One to read the FIGs mission statement, course criteria, student learning outcomes, and other FIGs-related documents.) Yet while maturity has wrought a degree of self-confidence, it has not brought complacency.The program remains one of the most assessed academic programs on campus. Yearly, FIGs administrators and instructors pore over results of surveys and quantitative data, searching for ways to improve both the program and its assessment. Findings from the fall, 2006, program offerings will be analyzed no differently. As is the case every year, in the spring preceding the fall course offerings, the FIGs seminar survey was retooled to more exacting standards. Most importantly, the survey included questions designed to explore the effectiveness of the seminars to attain goals based on a reconsidered set of revised student learning outcomes.In addition to the seminar survey, a new web-based survey was administered to three groups: FIGs students, Freshmen Year Experience (FYE) students, and a control group of freshmen who did not participate in either program. And, of course, quantitative data from the Data Warehouse was extracted and analyzed. Findings from all these sources are included in this report.

Identifier

409

Publisher

Digital object produced by Office of Survey Research, Western Washington University, and made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

College freshmen--Washington (State)--Bellingham--Statistics; College freshmen--Washington (State)--Bellingham--Attitudes

Genre/Form

Reports

Type

Text

Rights

This resource is provided for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries.

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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