Can I take my recalculated benchmark scores from 2001, 2002 or 2003 and evaluate them by using the 04 deciles report?
Yes, you can, but only for 4 of the 5 benchmarks: Level of Academic Challenge, Active and Collaborative Learning, Supportive Campus Environment, and Student-Faculty Interaction. For the first three, you may use the deciles provided in your 2004 benchmark report. For Student-Faculty Interaction (SFI), the variable “Work on a research project with a faculty member outside of course or program requirements” (RESEARCH) was removed from the calculation of the score on the Report to make it comparable with previous years. Thus, the decile distribution in your 2004 benchmark report does not apply. For multi-year comparisons against national and Carnegie comparison groups, we created a special page of deciles and statistics for the version of SFI that is reported on the Benchmark Recalculation Report (i.e., without RESEARCH).
