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Peter Hull; Joshua Angrist; Parag Pathak; Christopher R. Walters; Talia Gerstle; Russell Legate-Yang – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: Many states, school districts, and third-party platforms report measures of school performance. Such school ratings are widely consulted by parents and educators alike. The ratings appear to affect families' choices of where to live and where to enroll students (Bergman and Hill, 2018; Hasan and Kumar, 2019), as well as…
Descriptors: Race, Student Diversity, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
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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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Slyusarenko, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
The visions of the top 26 world-class universities of the first 30 in the Shanghai ranking list have been evaluated and compared with the missions of the world's top 20 universities. Applying the content analysis, a group of 48 keywords, which describe the essence of these visions, has been revealed. The average amount of keywords in one vision is…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Rating Scales, Institutional Evaluation
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Soh, Kay Cheng – European Journal of Higher Education, 2012
University ranking has become ritualistic in higher education. Ranking results are taken as bona fide by rank users. Ranking systems usually use large data sets from highly heterogeneous universities of varied backgrounds. This poses the problem of Simpson's Paradox and the lurking variables causing it. Using QS 2011-2012 Ranking data, the dual…
Descriptors: Colleges, Reputation, Rating Scales, Correlation
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Musa Pinar; Paul Trapp; Tulay Girard; Thomas E. Boyt – International Journal of Educational Management, 2014
Purpose: In today's complex and highly competitive marketplace, universities and colleges, realizing a need to develop sustainable strategies, have turned to branding as a solution. However, because of unique service characteristics, universities' branding attempts may not always result in success. The purpose of this paper, utilizing the concept…
Descriptors: Universities, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Evaluation
Flores, Kelly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
To investigate if, and how, curriculum developers are incorporating opportunities to develop global competence into business curricula, the Exploratory Design: Taxonomy Development Model (Qualitative Emphasized) was conducted on top-rated MBA programs. This three-phase mixed methods approach revealed 11 global competencies (or taxonomies) and 84…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Best Practices, Mixed Methods Research