Components of the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction
The SRI starts by asking the right questions. Students are asked for ratings in four areas:

Learning to apply course material (to improve

thinking, problem solving, and decisions)

 

Students rate how much progress they made on learning objectives that you have chosen as relevant to your course. These are broad learning objectives that cover all the specific learning outcomes you might have in a course.

Made it clear how each topic fit into the course

Students indicate how often they observed certain teaching methods. These teaching methods represent best practices and theories for teaching in college.
Students are also asked about their motivation, background preparation, work habits, and perceived course difficulty.

My background prepared me well for this course’s requirements.

And students provide “overall ratings” of the instructor and the course as a measure of general satisfaction.

Overall, I rate this course as excellent.

See all the items on the primary instrument.

The Faculty Report
Your individual course report provides detailed data from student feedback, and it also consolidates and analyzes the data to provide you with ways to reflect on, and improve, the instruction and student learning in your course through several components.
What progress on relevant objectives did students report overall and for individual objectives? This provides insight into parts of your course that may need adjustment.
Progress on Relevant Objectives
How does this progress compare to other courses?
The report suggests which teaching methods are best aligned with your relevant learning objectives and provides resources for ways of using these teaching methods in your next class.

Formative Feedback

A link to resources for learning more about this Teaching Method is provided.
Students’ ratings of the instructor and course are presented along with the ability to compare ratings to other groups.

Overall Ratings

Course and Student Characteristics

Student characteristics such as motivation and preparation are reported along with course characteristics such as class size. These factors are used to create adjusted scores which control for factors beyond an instructor’s control.
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Next, you can explore a report and learn more about how to interpret and use the information provided. Click on different parts of the report to learn more about that part of the report.

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Introduction

The Faculty Report

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The IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction system is not like other course evaluation systems. It does not depend on students' evaluation of your instruction. And that's a good thing, right? Students are not qualified to evaluate you. But what they can do is provide feedback that is useful to you in your on-going effort to improve your instruction and your course. This is accomplished by asking students the right questions and using that data to generate a report that is useful to you as you reflect on a particular course as well as your courses over time.

An Introduction to the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction

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