The Delaware Study

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The Delaware Study

• Full Name The University of Delaware National
  Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity
• Initiated in 1992 by researchers
• at the University of Delaware

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Purpose of the Delaware Study

• Provide a set of
• National Standardized Academic Benchmarks
• for academic management research
• Focused on Instructional Outputs,
• not to be confused with
• The Delaware Out-of-Classroom Activity Study
• a separate study by the University of Delaware.

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How is the Study Conducted?

• Invitation to U.S. public and private
  universities and colleges
• Participating institutions complete a
• Data Collection Form giving
• course, faculty, and cost/expenditure data
• Data analyzed by the University of Delaware
  results sent to institutions.

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Who Participates?

• In 2005-06
• Over 200 participating institutions
• from 39 states
• including 47 Research Institutions

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What are the National Standardized Benchmarks?

• Measures of
• PRODUCTIVITY
• Faculty teaching workloads ? credit hours /
  full-time equated faculty (FTEF)
• COST OF INSTRUCTION
• (direct instructional cost) / credit hour
• SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
• (separately budgeted scholarly activity)
• by Academic Discipline

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What are the Academic Disciplines?

• The U.S. Department of Education provides a
• Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP),
  
• a listing of different academic programs
• Wayne State utilizes approximately 80 of these
  Academic Disciplines in classifying its Course
  Subject Offerings.

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What Does the Data Collection Form Look Like?

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Breaking Down the Data Categories

• Faculty type
• Tenured/Tenure Eligible
• Other Regular Faculty
• Supplemental Faculty
• Teaching Assistants
• Section type
• Organized Class (OC)
• includes Lab/Discussions/Recitations
• Individualized Instruction (II)

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Faculty Type Assignments
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Faculty Type Assignments-Contd
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Individualized Instruction Courses
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• 3 Important Caveats
• in Using the Study

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Caveat 1The Relationship between Course Subject
and Academic Discipline

• There is NOT a 11 relationship between Academic
  Department and Academic Discipline. The
  relationship is 1Many.
• Example

Sociology Department (College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences)
CIP Code 45.11 Sociology
College of Social Work
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CIP Codes by School/College
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Caveats 2 Course Subject Classification

• Given that the Delaware Study is intended as a
  cost study, classification of a course is by the
  instructional account paying for the instructor.
• In some instances, this is not the same as the
  department offering the course.
• A detailed breakdown is given in Appendix D of
  the Report.

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Caveat 3 Cost/Expense Measures

• We participated in the cost/expense portion of
  the Study but the results have not yet been
  evaluated.
• Consequently, we may have faculty teaching load
  data only.
• We may have (a) cost per credit hour or (b)
  expenditures on scholarly activity

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An Additional Caveat

• 2nd year of Wayne States Participation, fewer
  data issues required resolution.
• Data deemed usable, with appropriate caution for
  possible outlying anomalies

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Content of the Study

• Summary Tables Charts
• Table A- Faculty Teaching Workloads (SCH/FTEF)
• Table B- Distribution of SCH by Faculty
  Category
• Table C- Distribution of SCH by Course Level
• For Table A-C above
• -Summary
• -Detail
• -Charts
• Quartiles for Table A - SCH and Class Sections
• Appendices

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Table A, Summary Totals
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Table A, Student Credit Hours Per FTE
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Chart A, Student Credit Hours per FTE Faculty
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Table B, Normative Percent of Student Credit
Hours across Faculty Category
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Chart B, Distribution of Student Credit Hours
Across Faculty Category
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Table C, Normative Percent of Student Credit
Hours within Faculty Category
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Chart C, Percent of Student Credit Hours within
Faculty Category
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Quartiles

• A Quartile Ranking in Comparison to Peers
• is provided for

• SCH / FTEF
• FTES/FTEF
• Organized Class Sections / FTEF

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Table A, Quartiles
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• Closing Considerations

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Why Participate in the Delaware Study?

• Comparisons are made at the academic discipline
  level of analysis.
• Teaching workloads are analyzed by faculty type,
  i.e., tenured and tenure track other permanent
  faculty supplemental faculty and graduate
  teaching assistants.
• Participants can define their own peer groups.
• The data definitions, methodology and data
  collection tools are regularly reviewed by
  representatives from participating institutions.
• The Delaware Study is longitudinal, and enables
  you to track trend data over extended periods of
  time.
• The measures enjoy widespread national acceptance
  and use.

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Contact Information

• Paul N. Moniodis
• Executive Director, Institutional Research
• 1309 Faculty/Administration Building
• [phone]
• Paul.Moniodis_at_Wayne.Edu