Aligning IDEA to Your Objectives

February 26, 2021

The base IDEA tool has a standard set of criteria:

Sample IDEA form

Faculty are encouraged to make the most of this opportunity to gather informative student feedback. Each of the standard criteria can be determined as essential, important, or minor. There is also the opportunity to include a few additional objectives that are most important for you. Here are some examples:

Selecting the 3-5 most informational questions to add can be a challenge. The Faculty Development team is available for consultations to work through the process.

No single survey form can anticipate the needs of all instructors or learning environments
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Selecting IDEA Learning Objectives

The selection of relevant course objectives is an essential part of the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction System. This document will explain how to select Learning Objectives and why your selection of objectives is important.

Thoughts on Selecting IDEA Objectives

Guidelines from IDEA on determining custom objectives to include on the IDEA tool to best inform your practice.