Description Benchmark Reports

Benchmark Reports This section contains nine reports presenting data for all students, for students by enrollment status (e.g., part- and full-time), and for students by credit hour status (0 to 29 and 30+ credits). The first report, on page B1, is a Summary Table of scores for all students on each of the five benchmarks: 1) Active and Collaborative Learning, 2) Student Effort, 3) Academic Challenge, 4) Student-Faculty Interactions, and 5) Support for Learners for your institution, a comparison group, and all CCSSE 2005 colleges. The 2005 CCSSE Benchmark Deciles Report, on page B2, highlights the five benchmark deciles for all students at your institution. Deciles are percentile scores that divide the frequency of benchmark scores into ten equal groups. A percentile represents the point at or below which a specified percentage of the college benchmark scores fall. thFor example, the 60 percentile represents the point at or below which 60 percent of the college benchmark scores fall for the respective comparison group. Deciles are listed for the entire 2005 participating group of colleges and for each appropriate breakdown according to college size and urbanicity. To help you gauge your college’s performance relative to the comparison groups, the shaded area on the tables indicate the deciles that are less than or equal to your benchmark scores. The third report – Bar Charts and Benchmark Item Composition - uses bar charts to represent the ...