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Pozzi, Francesca; Manganello, Flavio; Passarelli, Marcello; Persico, Donatella; Brasher, Andrew; Holmes, Wayne; Whitelock, Denise; SangrĂ , Albert – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
University ranking systems are being implemented with the aim of assessing and comparing higher education institutions at a global level. Despite their being increasingly used, rankings are often strongly criticized for their social and economic implications, as well as for limitations in their technical implementation. One of these limitations is…
Descriptors: Reputation, Distance Education, Academic Achievement, Universities
Polikoff, Morgan S. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
Late in 2018, the California Department of Education rolled out an updated version of the California School Dashboard. This revision altered the look and feel of the Dashboard and added new indicators based on newly available data. This brief updates a 2018 analysis of the Dashboard. First, I examine whether the state's revisions are in line with…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes
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Goastellec, Gaele – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
Faced with an increasing number of data and rankings, the author questions the roles of the different groups of actors who were originally involved in questioning the use of statistical indicators as a means of addressing issues of access to higher education. The comparison and nature of these international (UNESCO, OECD, EUROSTAT) and national…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Diversity (Institutional)