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Meta-Ranking to Position World Universities
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Luque-Martínez, Teodoro; Faraoni, Nina – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
University rankings have proliferated in recent years and have been diverse, with a variety of profiles. This paper deals with the task of obtaining one single summarized ranking based on a selection of the most widely known rankings, in short, a meta-ranking. Five of the best-known rankings were selected and a database compiled with the major…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Databases
Efficiency, Costs, Rankings and Heterogeneity: The Case of US Higher Education
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Johnes, Geraint – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Among the major trends in the higher education (HE) sector, the development of rankings as a policy and managerial tool is of particular relevance. However, despite the diffusion of these instruments, it is still not clear how they relate with traditional performance measures, like unit costs and efficiency scores. In this paper, we estimate a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Costs, Efficiency, Reputation
College of Education Assessment Administrators: Work Experiences, Challenges, and Incongruities
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Lock, Leonard K.; Kraska, Marie – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The study was based upon surveying colleges/schools of education with graduate programs from the "US News and World Report" "Best Education Schools 2011" (N = 89). Results indicated that greatest time was spent on data collection, data management, and compilation; while least time was focused on instrument technical…
Descriptors: Work Experience, College Faculty, Management Systems, Graduate Study