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IDEA
Student Ratings of Instruction Instrument (Tips and Tricks)
- IDEA
means Individual Development and Educational Assessment
- The
best piece of data to use off of the IDEA reports for personnel decisions
(i.e. promotion/tenure) is the Progress on Relevant Objectives data (IDEA
Center recommendation). This is reported as a T-score and is
graphed on the reports. It is derived
from a combination of the numbers from the objectives you chose as
important or essential (essential has a weight of two, important a weight
of one) on the faculty information form (FIF) for this course. This data is on page 2 of the IDEA
faculty reports.
- A
common way of presenting that data in a Record of Service is by
identifying the range a score fell.
For example, a T-Score of 59 falls in the Above Average range which
includes 20% of all the T-scores.
- The IDEA
Center considers faculty
falling in the “Average” range (middle 40%) to be effective teachers.
- Other
data that the IDEA center suggests as useful in personnel decisions are
the Excellence of Teacher, Excellence of course, and Improved Student Attitude
questions, also reported on page two of the IDEA faculty reports.
- Some
faculty use the data reported for individual objectives (Page 3 of
reports)
- When
comparing adjusted T-scores against the normalized data set, note that a
score should be 0.3 or greater away to be considered a significant
difference.
- The
adjusted score accounts for student motivation, class size, and some other
factors. It should be considered to
be a truer reflection of teaching effectiveness than the raw score.
- Note
that the IDEA report format changed dramatically in 1995, and slightly in
2002.
- Note
that the IDEA database was updated in 1998 and 2002. Both times the baselines for the items
on page 2 and 3 of the report went down slightly.
CSTL has copies of all faculty IDEA reports. If you need a copy, please let us know at
x-2298.
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