Our Services
- Student Ratings of Instruction
- Assesses effectiveness by focusing on learning and curricular objectives.
- Feedback for Department Chairs
- Comprises the only nationally normed tool for evaluating chairpersons.
- Feedback for Administrators
- Considers impressions of stakeholders on 10 pivotal characteristics.
IDEA Research Published in The Department Chair
Steve Benton, Senior Research Officer, recently published an article, along with his doctoral student, Jan Middendorf, in The Department Chair. (Middendorf, B. J. & Benton, S. L., "Trends in Chair Responsibilities," Fall 2009, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 23-25). They examined data collected from 1990 to 2007, using the IDEA Feedback for Department Chairs system. Results indicated that the importance chairs assigned to 15 responsibilities remained remarkably consistent across the years. In addition, chairs tended to receive the highest faculty ratings of their performance on the responsibilities chairs deemed most important. The strong relationship between chairs' ratings of importance and faculty ratings of performance supported the validity of The IDEA Feedback for Department Chairs system.
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