Word: peering
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Director of Data Research Robert Morse said that while Harvard and Princeton tied overall, the scale tipped slightly in Harvard’s favor in individual category rankings. The report ranks such measures as financial aid, academic quality, student retention, faculty resources, and peer assessment...
...Expos 20 is a necessary evil of freshman year, but it’s also a course that may impart some benefit if you are lucky—so embrace it. Make friends in Annenberg while whining over the reading, bond with your classmates during peer editing, and maybe even learn how to write a tiny bit better as a result...
...reputation survey, admissions data, faculty data, financial-resources data, alumni giving and graduation and retention rates. We're not comparing all 1,400 schools. We're dividing them up into 10 categories, like national universities and liberal arts. We assign a weight to each of the variables. The peer survey, or the academic reputation, is the highest-weighted variable - it's 25%. (Read about a new college-rankings system...
What tells you how heavily to weight each factor? Our accumulated judgment. Our rankings aren't social science in the sense that we're not doing peer-reviewed rankings; we're not submitting our conclusions and our weighting system to a group of academics and letting them decide if they are right or wrong. We do meet regularly with academic experts about the relative importance of the factors that we use. And we have been doing this for 25 years...
...premise that since we have a big enough respondent base, enough people have some knowledge of enough schools that we get a statistically significant number of respondents for each school. There are subjective parts of education, parts that can't be measured by just quantitative data. The peer survey tries to capture that part of it. (Read "Google and Microsoft: The Battle Over College E-Mail...