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John Hansen; Amanda Nemeth; John Stewart – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Curricular analytics (CA) is a quantitative method that analyzes the sequence of courses (curriculum) that students in an undergraduate academic program must complete to fulfill the requirements of the program. The main hypothesis of CA is that the less complex a curriculum is, the more likely it is that students complete the program. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Stewart, Amanda; Walk, Marlene; Kuenzi, Kerry – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2021
Given increasingly crowded education marketplaces, an emerging perspective views education as a marketable product and seeks to explain what drives loyalty of alumni. Satisfaction has been used as an indicator of education quality and resides in a complex relationship of factors pertaining to students and institutions. The nonprofit graduate…
Descriptors: Alumni, Reputation, Educational Quality, Nonprofit Organizations
Rose, Caleb P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
KIPP Delta College Preparatory School (KIPP: DCPS), an open-enrollment charter school, opened in 2002 in Helena, Arkansas. Since its opening, KIPP: DCPS students have consistently outperformed their peers in the Helena/West Helena School district, and moreover, recent test scores suggest that white students and minority students are achieving at…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, College Preparation, Academic Achievement, High Achievement
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Stephen, Timothy D. – Communication Education, 2008
Recent years have seen increasing interest in assessing the prestige and productivity of programs in communication. An NCA doctoral reputational study was published in 2004, and a new National Research Council assessment is underway that will for the first time include the communication field. Two systems relying on objective appraisal of faculty…
Descriptors: Productivity, Program Effectiveness, Reputation, Business Communication
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Urbancic, Frank R. – Journal of Education for Business, 2008
In its plan to combat the PhD shortage crisis, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB; 2003) has called for the development of PhD program rankings to serve as incentives for academic institutions to invest more in PhD programs, thereby counterbalancing the disproportionate influence of master of business…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Business Administration Education, Doctoral Programs, Evaluation Methods
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Webster, David S.; Skinner, Tad – Change, 1996
A discussion of the National Research Council's 1995 ranking of research-doctorate programs in the United States criticizes the report for what it does not address, particularly comparisons with the information it disseminated in a 1982 report, some data discrepancies, and central issues such as an institution's available methods of instruction,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Programs, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics