New National Norms

Beginning with Fall 2001 evaluations, the IDEA center started using a new set of national norms.  The new norms reflect some changes in national trends. 

• In general, averages for items in the new normative database are slightly higher.
• Two items have substantially higher item averages (about a half-point higher in the new database norms). Those items are: Acquiring skills in working with others as a member of a team and Learning to analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments and points of view. While these item increases are greater than one would expect, teaching experts who reviewed the twelve learning objectives, suggested that these two items reflect areas where the greatest efforts to improve learning are currently occurring on a national basis.

Availability of New Local Norms

We have accumulated sufficient data for new local norms.  These new local norms are available on this website.  In general the net effect is that there is a slight decline in TTU evaluation scores as reflected in the graph below.

Mean TTU IDEA Evaluations

Old vs New Database

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