The IDI
Early Adoption at Valpo
Since March 2024, over thirty faculty and staff have taken the IDI assessment, and roughly 80 students have participated across four courses in Fall 2024, including two sections of VUE 101.
If you are a faculty or staff member interested in learning more about the IDI for Spring 2025, you will work with Carol Goss, Director of the Language and Intercultural Learning Center, or Professor Stacy Hoult. Fully licensed by IDI, LLC, Director Goss and Professor Hoult are the two individuals at Valpo who can administer IDI the IDI assessment.
Both have completed the IDI Qualifying Seminar training, generously funded by The Office of Multicultural Programs. To learn more about the IDI, complete the IDI Interest Form or contact Carol Goss or Stacy Hoult.
Frequently Asked Questions
IDI Common Questions
The Intercultural Development Inventory®, or IDI®, is a widely used and effective cross-culturally valid assessment for building intercultural competence.
In spring 2024, Valparaiso University adopted the IDI so that members of the Valpo community can use the assessment to support and enhance intercultural development among students, staff, and faculty. To explore the IDI assessment tool and to learn how to get started, read below and contact LINC Director Carol Goss or Professor Stacy Hoult.
Assessment Guides
LINC Director Carol Goss and Professor Stacy Hoult are licensed by IDI, LLC and are currently the two individuals at Valparaiso University who can administer the IDI assessment. Both have completed the IDI Qualifying Seminar training; they also participate in ongoing development training provided by IDI, LLC. Each is licensed by the IDI, LLC as a “Qualified Administrator,” or “QA.” At Valpo, we use the terms “IDI Assessment Guide” and “IDI Guide.” The role of the IDI Guide is to help you interpret your IDI results during an individual or group debrief meeting. The debrief meeting is a required component of the IDI tool.
When you schedule an individual debrief meeting, you may specify either Carol or Stacy to serve as your IDI Guide. Their profiles are provided below. For group debrief meetings, Carol and Stacy will generally co-lead the session.
Carol Goss ’92: Director, Language and Intercultural Learning Center
219.464.5764
Arts and Sciences Building, room 240
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, French Literature
B.A. Valparaiso University, French
In Fall 2024, Carol Goss begins her 27th year as Director of the Language and Intercultural Learning Center. She has more than 26 years of classroom experience teaching Beginning French at Valpo as Adjunct Instructor of French. Carol was first introduced to the IDI assessment tool at a 2022 conference on intercultural competence in language education. Since then, she has developed a series of Intercultural Competence Labs which have been carefully integrated in FREN 101 and FREN 102. As LINC Director, Carol designs and facilitates intercultural learning opportunities for Valpo faculty and staff and initiated the launch of the IDI assessment in March 2024. Learn more about Carol Goss.
Stacy Hoult: Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Department Chair
Arts and Sciences Building, Room 272
Ph.D. University of Chicago, Spanish
M.A. University of Missouri-Columbia, Spanish
B.A. Millikin University, Foreign Languages
Stacy Hoult begins her 23rd year on the Valpo faculty as Professor of Spanish and current Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures. She teaches courses in Spanish language as well as Latin American and Latinx cultures and cultural production. Beyond the classroom, she advised LIVE (Latinx in Valparaiso for Excellence) for 18 years and has led many university committees and task forces. In Fall 2022, she began integrating Intercultural Competence Labs into her courses, and she received training as a Qualified Administrator of the IDI assessment in December 2023. Learn more about Stacy Hoult.