FYS History
Which is higher: the number of years Mike Steele has taught FYS or the average number of feet a chicken can jump into the air?
Who is Mike Steele?
(chicken can jump on average 4-6 feet in the air; Mike has been teaching much longer than that!)
The number of SLO categories in the FYS program.
What is 5?
In 2021, when asked what additional topic students would like to see in FYS, they overwhelmingly asked for more on this...
What is stress management and wellness?
(55% said it would be very helpful; 29% said somewhat helpful. By comparison, only 25% said test taking would be very helpful.)
1972. University of South Carolina.
What is the year and place of the very 1st FYS program?
"Identifying what a student wants to achieve at Pacific" is an SLO--True or False
What is True?
In 2021, for our FYS Showcase, we met in pairs rather than a larger gathering of sections. Comparatively, the percentage of students who found it an "enjoyable way to demo learning" in 2021 compared to 2019 was...
[BLANK]% (2021) to 62% (2019)
What is 77%.
[2018 was 55%; 2017 was 66%)
This makes me wonder about how we should run next year...
Within the last decade, the highest number of FYS sections we've had was...
What is 26? (2015)
(We currently have 18.)
SLO4: Verbally articulate their understanding of a text, [BLANK}, or lecture in a group setting.
What is "phenomenon?"
Verbally articulate their understanding of a text, phenomenon, or lecture in a group setting.
In 2021, this percentage of students in the post-FYS survey said FYS helped them transition to academics in college:
1. 56%
2. 76%
3. 86%
What is 76%
Less than 10% said it did not help much
15% said neutral impact