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. As applicable, materials reflecting scholarly/professional activity and service should also be included. Portfolio materials will include a full academic CV; self-evaluation of performance reflecting PLU and SoN contingent faculty expectations for role; raw course evaluation data and statistical summaries from all courses taught; syllabi and examples of classroom and clinical teaching materials; materials providing evidence of performance in other assigned areas of role responsibility, as
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. As applicable, materials reflecting scholarly/professional activity and service should also be included. Portfolio materials will include a full academic CV; self-evaluation of performance reflecting PLU and SoN contingent faculty expectations for role; raw course evaluation data and statistical summaries from all courses taught; syllabi and examples of classroom and clinical teaching materials; materials providing evidence of performance in other assigned areas of role responsibility, as
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Information(Vital Record) Official Copy: Humans Resources Retention: 50 years. Other Copies: Retention: Policies and Procedures (Vital Record) Provides a record of established policies and procedures for a department/office. Official Copy: Any department or office Retention: Until superseded. Transfer to University Archives Other Copies: Retention: Back to top R Research Data (Vital Record) Official Copy: Any department or office Retention: Permanent. Other Copies: Retention: Research Protocols (Drug
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was reputable. Some disinformation or propaganda has been delivered by withholding information and deceiving the public, news outlets, and even researchers (Example: oil companies withholding important climate change data whilst supporting climate denier movements). Evaluation Methods Consult this section for different methods to evaluate information sourcesWho, What, Where MethodUse this method when encountering sources that you don’t know much about or when you are doing research in a topic that
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primary source is a first-hand account of a situation or event or any original information source before it has been analyzed. Oftentimes, a primary source tells you what was being said about a topic at the time it took place. Below are some examples of primary sources: Statistical data sets Empirical research Literary and art works (novels, plays, poems, paintings) Speeches, diaries, memoirs Historical newspapers Eyewitness reports (interviews, photographs, social media) Secondary: Secondary sources
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gathered samples and expertly interpreted the amassed data. This research project was part of the Natural Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (NSSURP). NSSURP allows student researchers to work directly with PLU faculty mentors to experience a learning dimension rarely accessible from the academic-year textbook and laboratory assignments. Research projects reflect the natural sciences fields of biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental studies, geosciences, mathematics, physics
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. These types of projects demonstrate a student’s ability to think like a scientist and connect theory to practice. Beyond that, it trains students to think critically. “It’s one of the ways they develop habits of mind that are connected to being good citizens, too, because research questions are rarely neat,” Killen said. The process of developing a hypothesis, and determining how to explore that question and collect data, may look like a method useful only in academic research. However, Killen
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, and deconstruct them and analyze them on a computer to quantify differences in the songs of the different call types. This is technical, dry work. But Grossberg is thrilled at the opportunity. “I just love being outdoors, and this gives you an appreciation for the overall research we’re doing and how all the pieces connect, how they all fit together,” he said. Scientific research, he’s learned, is 95 percent failure and 5 percent success. So there is a lot of slogging through data that may not
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requires new PLU students to complete an educational online module that provides valuable prevention tips, information on what forms of sexual violence can occur on college campuses, said Ray Lader, Associate Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities at PLU. The module also informs students about available resources and highlights important policies to help them be prepared for their college experience. The program, called Think About It, has given the university valuable data “that helps us
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landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors that have caused child vaccination rates to decline in many parts of the country.Not that poring over such data was always her forte. Her passion was kindled years ago as a psychology undergrad at PLU — even if she had to overcome her initial dread of statistics and methods first. “I was terrified to take that class because I never considered
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