Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total of 53 different institutions are found in one or more of these tables. Only sixteen institutions, however, are named in over half of them. These sixteen Mr. Foster has undertaken to rank according to a composite index based upon 26 of his 28 measures. In deriving this composite index, however, he has added together indiscriminately men points, and percentages and inadvertently has really assigned chance weights to the different components which seems hardly justified--certainly he does not attempt to justify them in his derivation of the final compostite table...
...seems worth while, therefore, to combine Mr. Foster's original data by another method to see what difference, if any, it would make in the final ranking of these sixteen outstanding graduate schools. t This has been done after conference with Mr. Foster and at his specific request. This article in The Alumni Bulletin is published with his approval...
...judgments. No such attempt is here made. Instead, they have all been given equal weight in combining them into a single composite measure by the method of average ranks. Each of the institutions has been ranked in each of the 28 features according to the data given in Mr. Foster's tables, and the sum of these ranks computed for each institution...
...comparison with Mr. Foster's composite shows a change in rank of nine of the sixteen institutions, the greatest change being in the case of Michigan, which is raised from eleventh to ninth rank. The most notable change, perhaps, is in the case of Chicago, which is raised from third to second place. By either method Harvard easily stands at the top. Walter Crosby Eells. School of Education, Stanford University