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Luo, Linlin; Kiewra, Kenneth A. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2019
Students often fail to write effective synthesis essays that compare multiple sources across common intersecting categories. Instead, they compose flawed essays that focus primarily on one source and then add a few ideas from other sources (patchwriting); report ideas from all sources in a disjointed fashion (tag-all writing); or draw from one…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Synthesis, Writing Instruction, Essays
Li, Dan; Benton, Stephen L. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2019
Teacher clarity is widely considered an essential element of effective teaching and student success. The same holds true in the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction system (SRI). On Diagnostic Feedback (DF), the item "Explained course material clearly and concisely," which IDEA considers a measure of teacher clarity, has consistently been…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Evaluation
Li, Dan; Benton, Stephen L. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2018
The authors conducted a study to investigate whether personnel ratings of administrators and department chairs differ by the ratees' gender and the Carnegie classification of their institutions. The authors inferred the genders (male or female) from first names and analyzed personnel ratings for 1,011 administrators and 762 department chairs…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Classification, Department Heads
Li, Dan; Benton, Stephen L. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2017
Despite the nearly equal gender ratio of faculty members in the United States (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016), women are still underrepresented in certain STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields (Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering, 2015). Also, women tend to hold lower academic…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Women Faculty, Gender Differences
Benton, Stephen L.; Li, Dan – IDEA Center, Inc., 2017
In the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (SRI) system, students complete self-ratings of their "work habits," "motivation," and "background preparation." Average course ratings on these characteristics are important variables used in adjusting scores on student ratings of progress on relevant objectives (PRO),…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Study Habits, Student Motivation
Proctor, Janice; Bumgardner, Tiffany – IDEA Center, Inc., 2016
This paper focuses on the authors' experiences teaching on Ohio University's Learning Network (OULN), which uses interactive television and real-time face-to-face interaction as a distance-education (DE) delivery tool. One of the authors is a sociology professor, and the other is her former student and an experienced OULN system operator. The…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
Analysis of IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction System 2015 Pilot Data. IDEA Technical Report No. 19
Li, Dan; Benton, Stephen L.; Brown, Ron; Sullivan, Patricia; Ryalls, Kenneth R. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2016
This report describes statistical analyses performed on data collected in the Spring of 2015 from the pilot study of proposed revised and new items in the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (SRI) system. Described are the methods employed, results obtained, and decisions made in selecting items for the updated instruments. The procedures occurred…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Rating Scales, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Course Evaluation
Revising the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction System 2002-2011 Data. IDEA Technical Report No. 18
Benton, Stephen L.; Li, Dan; Brown, Ron; Guo, Meixi; Sullivan, Patricia – IDEA Center, Inc., 2015
This report describes the processes undertaken to revise the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (SRI) system. The previous revision occurred in 1999, as described in IDEA Technical Report No. 11, "Revising the IDEA System for Obtaining Student Ratings of Instructors and Courses" (Hoyt, Chen, Pallett, & Gross, 1999). The procedures…
Descriptors: Review (Reexamination), Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Rating Scales, Test Items
Benton, Stephen L.; Li, Dan – IDEA Center, Inc., 2015
Most institutions of higher education have some system in place for collecting student ratings of instruction (SRI) data from classes on a systematic basis. SRIs are a relatively simple way of gauging student perceptions of teaching and the course. Since the initial development of IDEA SRI in 1975, much has changed about higher education. Many…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Rating Scales, Test Reliability
Benton, Stephen L.; Li, Dan – IDEA Center, Inc., 2015
This study examined which teaching methods are most highly correlated with student progress on relevant course objectives in first- and second-year (lower-level) general education courses. We specifically sought to identify teaching methods that distinguish progress made by students taking a general education course from that made by students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, General Education, Academic Achievement, Instructional Effectiveness
Benton, Stephen L.; Gross, Amy B.; Pallett, William H.; Song, Jihyun; Webster, Russell; Guo, Meixi – IDEA Center, Inc., 2011
The IDEA Feedback for Administrators system provides feedback to academic administrators about their performance of relevant administrative responsibilities and their leadership style and interpersonal characteristics. The system is based on a model of reflective practice, which is consistent with The IDEA Center's longstanding approach to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Evaluation
Benton, Stephen L.; Webster, Russell; Gross, Amy B.; Pallett, William H. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2010
This report summarizes analyses performed on IDEA student ratings of instruction collected in traditional (i.e., on-campus) and online courses from 2002 to 2008. Only classes utilizing online survey delivery and identified exclusively as either traditional (N = 5,272) or online (N = 13,416) were included. Classes were removed until all…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Course Evaluation, Conventional Instruction
Hoyt, Donald P.; Lee, Eun-Joo – IDEA Center, Inc., 2002
A revised version of the IDEA form for collecting student ratings of instructional processes and outcomes has been administered since the fall term of the 1998-99 school year. Results from all administrations of the device from August 1998, through August 2001, constitute the basic data of this report. A total of 122 institutions of higher…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Students, Rating Scales, Test Reliability
Hoyt, Donald P.; Lee, Eun-Joo – IDEA Center, Inc., 2002
Participants in the IDEA student rating system frequently ask whether or not results differ significantly among disciplines. Do disciplines emphasize different objectives? Do their students report similar levels of progress on objectives selected by the instructor? Do teaching "approaches" differ across disciplines? Do specific…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Students, Behavioral Objectives