This view summarizes over a half million data points in benchmark results for your institution relative to peers and the full cohort of COACHE's participating institutions. Each column represents the range of institutional means (not the distribution of individual respondents) along that dimension. Within each chart, you can see your institution's mean score on the benchmark ( ◆ ), your institution's prior mean score ( — ), the mean scores of your five peers ( o ), and the distribution of the responses of the entire cohort of institutions as signified by the red, grey, and blue boxes.
You should be most concerned with the placement of your marker ( ◆ ). A score in the red section of the column indicates that your institution ranked in the bottom 30 percent of all institutions. A mark in the blue section indicates your faculty rated a benchmark in the top 30 percent of all institutions. A mark in the grey area indicates a "middle-of-the-road" result.