Pilot studies are also in process in nursing education and in high schools.
EBI has provided benchmarking tools to over 500 colleges and universities and surveyed over 700,000 students in the Spring of 2000, providing, confidential, custom, comparative reports to participating schools and programs in support of their continuous improvement objectives. Recipients are free to forward this message to other interested persons. Only recently, with the introduction of high quality national benchmarking studies, have institutions in higher education begun to recognize the value of benchmarking as an assessment methodology to support introspection, strategic planning and continuous improvement initiatives. While there are many approaches to benchmarking, we will focus our attention here on studies that assess stakeholder perceptions of quality. The principles of stakeholder benchmarking studies are well suited to assist colleges and universities in the development of a comprehensive, long-term assessment strategy.