Individual Development and Educational Assessment

Benchmarked Assessment Products for Higher Education

The success of your institution of higher education is the reason The IDEA Center exists. As a nonprofit organization, we have partnered since 1975 with colleges and universities across the country to reach the same goal — continuous individual and institutional improvement and achievement.

With a range of nationally normed, research-driven, flexible assessment services, The IDEA Center helps faculty members solicit feedback and evaluate teaching as it relates to curricular goals and the measurement of learning. We help faculty, deans, administrators, and department chairs assess how their own and the institution’s objectives are realized.

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Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 8:40am

Dr. Shelley Chapman has joined The IDEA Center as the Vice President for Client Services. Shelley comes to us from Southern Wesleyan University where she served as the Vice President for Academic Services and Director of the Center for Transformational Learning. With a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University with a focus on higher education, curriculum theory and learning theory, Shelley will be a great asset to the Center as she applies over 20 years of experience as a teacher, administrator, and faculty development professional. She has direct experience with IDEA from her service as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Johns Hopkins University. She brings additional experience from The Community College of Baltimore County. Shelley succeeds Dr. Amy Gross who now serves the Center as the Vice President for Knowledge Management and Special Projects. You can contact Shelley at: Shelley@theideacenter.org or 800.255.2757.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 12:10pm

Since August 1, 1975, The IDEA Center, Manhattan, Kan., has quietly, efficiently and systematically gathered data and offered feedback for faculty improvement in hundreds of thousands of college and university classes. The brainchild of one psychology professor who believed that student learning, rather than student whims, should be the yardstick of faculty evaluation, the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction has spun off a suite of improvement feedback instruments currently used in 370 colleges and universities.
 
In 1968, Donald Hoyt, Ph.D., faculty member and administrator at Kansas State University in Manhattan, began creating a student ratings of teaching instrument that looked at student learning relative to an instructor’s objectives, rather than simply measuring an instructor’s behaviors or popularity.
 

Monday, June 21, 2010 - 9:30am

Congratulations to Dr. Chuck Phillips, Assistant Dean of Assessment and Associate Professor at Drake College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Des Moines, IA.
 
Phillips was one of three individuals awarded the 2010 Award for Excellence in Assessment from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. His award was for Drake’s use of IDEA in their assessment work. His presentation, Assessment of a college-wide teaching goal and related curricular methods, will be made at their annual meeting this July in Seattle, WA. 
 

Bill Pallett, President of The IDEA Center, explains understanding adjusted scores. Tips for best viewing experience:

  • Click the "Understanding Adjusted Scores" link directly above
  • Have a report in front of you for reference
  • Click the button to the left of the volume control to switch to full screen

The IDEA Center receives numerous inquiries from prospective and current clients alike. One frequent question is, “In what ways have other campuses effectively used the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction system?” Some of those currently using IDEA shared some best practices from their experience.