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Ali, Mohammad Ghulam – Online Submission, 2022
Ranking scales is an important tool which serves learning outcomes. Accuracy of Ranking depends upon how accurately & honestly the data is submitted according to the ranking methodology, how accurately Peers are giving their responses and how efficiently the ranking agencies are validating and evaluating the submitted data. However, giving…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Achievement Rating, Reputation, Universities
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Calderon, Angel – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have long embraced a path towards sustainability and engaged in supporting sustainable development. The adoption of the sustainability development goals has forced HEIs to assess how they engage with these goals and how they address societal challenges head on. However, the emergence of sustainability rankings…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Institutional Evaluation, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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Huang, Zhongjing; Chen, HuanChun – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
The major aim of recent school education reform in China is to improve educational equity and quality. This paper aims to explore a collaborative reform in a school district in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. The major focus of the reform has been a change of school management from "government" to "governance," which is a shift…
Descriptors: Governance, Government School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
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Soh, Kaycheng – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
World university rankings use the weight-and-sum approach to process data. Although this seems to pass the common sense test, it has statistical problems. In recent years, seven such problems have been uncovered: spurious precision, weight discrepancies, assumed mutual compensation, indictor redundancy, inter-system discrepancy, negligence of…
Descriptors: Reputation, Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Characteristics
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Powers, Jeanne M. – National Education Policy Center, 2023
School ratings are a ubiquitous feature of the U.S. educational system. Alongside state-mandated measures of school performance, non-state organizations such as GreatSchools.org and Niche have created consumer-oriented systems of school ratings that draw on publicly available information about schools. Claiming the purpose of their rating systems…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Equal Education, Race, Ethnicity
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Jajo, Nethal K.; Harrison, Jen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
University rankings are key drivers in national and institutional strategic planning. The increase in the number of university ranking systems and the diversity of methods and indicators used by these systems necessitate the development of an index that can measure a university's performance in all these systems at once. This article presents…
Descriptors: Reputation, Strategic Planning, Universities, Institutional Evaluation
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Schmadeka, Wayne – Journal of Case Studies in Accreditation and Assessment, 2012
At the urging of the U.S. Department of Education, regional accrediting organizations have, during the last few years, placed much greater emphasis on implementation of assessment as a requirement for accreditation. Assessment serves two important purposes: institutional survival and improvement of student achievement. Of these two, survival is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Accreditation (Institutions), Program Evaluation, Institutional Survival
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Simmonds, Michael; Webb, P. Taylor – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper describes how a locally developed school ranking system affected student enrolment patterns in British Columbia over time. In developing an annual school "report card" that was published in newspapers and online, the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute created a marketplace for school choice by devising an accountability scheme…
Descriptors: Accountability, Foreign Countries, School Choice, Educational Policy
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Hawkes, Glenn W.; Hawkes, T. Elijah – Schools: Studies in Education, 2013
John Dewey was inspired by what he termed "the miracle of shared experience and shared communication." His faith in the power of individuals working in democratic association also included warnings of a darker side, the "monstrosities" that individuals can become when they live and work in isolation from others. In this…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Isolation, Educational Change
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Tapper, Ted; Filippakou, Ourania – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2009
The purpose of this exploratory article is to broaden our understanding of institutional reputation. It argues that it is vital to understand how prestigious institutions of higher education evaluate the basis of their own reputations. While accepting the importance of institutional research outputs, which are so critical to the current…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Reputation, Classification
Lafon, Valerie, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
"IMHE-Info" is a newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme of OECD. This issue includes: (1) Breaking Ranks: Assessing Quality in Higher Education (Lyndon Thompson); (2) How to Improve Quality in Higher Education: A Study of Institutional Strategies; and (3) No More Ivory Towers: New Phase…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Huddleston, Thomas, Jr.; Karr, Mary Beth – College and University, 1982
A method used at Bradley University to assess the institution's public image consisted of a series of paired descriptive phrases through which potential students could compare the school with their ideal college in academic factors, location, size, campus, costs, and career placement. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Choice, Evaluation Methods, Expectation, Higher Education
Fellers, John – 1982
Image assessment in higher education and procedures for conducting image assessments are discussed. Image assessment is the process of finding out what others think about an organization. It is proposed that when image assessments are approached objectively, the results can help determine constituent needs, anticipate vocational trends, survey…
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Faculty College Relationship
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Lowry, Robert C.; Silver, Brian D. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1996
Asserts that variance between a university's reputation as an institution and its commitment to research have a greater impact on political science department rankings than any internal factors within the department. Includes several tables showing statistical variables of department and university rankings. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Achievement Rating, Analysis of Variance, Credibility