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Modelling Institutional Similarities: A Study that Explores Why Peers are Peers and the Validity of the US News Framework for Assessing Quality
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Brodnick, Robert; Rogers, Mike – Online Submission, 2004
This study explored institutional similarities using modelling techniques in the national university population. Measures of proximity in national datasets shed light on the dynamics of peer group construction. Factors were identified that provide the foundation for peer similarities. Structural equation modelling allowed testing of fit across…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Validity, Institutional Research, Structural Equation Models