Improving UF's 2008 Peer Assessment
Peer Assessment- VALUE 25%
Overall Rank/ State Rank/ School / delta
38/ 10t/ UW-Madison/ 4.1/ -0.5
44/ 13t/ UT- Austin/ 4.1/ -0.5
38/ 10t/ UIUC/ 4.0/ -0.4
42/ 11t/ UWashington/ 3.9/ -0.3
38/ 10t/ UC- San Diego/ 3.8/ -0.2
42/ 11t/ UC- Davis/ 3.8/ -0.2
48/ 16/ PSU/ 3.8/ -0.2
44/ 13t/ UC- Irvine/ 3.6/ 0
49/ 17/ UF/ 3.6/ same/ RANKED 16th
44/ 13t/ UC- SB 3.5/ 0.1
PEER ASSESMENT CONCLUSION:
UF IS TIED FOR #16 WITH UC IRVINE. ONLY UCSB IS RANKED LOWER AT #17 WITH A 3.5
FACT: UC San Diego was ranked top 10 with a peer score of 3.8.
UC- Davis and PSU are also ranked 3.8.
For a category that is worth 25% of the total USNWR rankings UF has A LOT OF WORK TO DO HERE with only a 3.6.
They need to improve .2 points to match UC- Davis, UC- SD and PSU.
From what I have read the changes in USNWR WILL NOT make much change to this category.
LINK:
'U.S. News' Adds Surveys That Could Alter Methodology :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
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Others have bashed UF's 3.6
PR score. That score does handicap UF in moving up in the USNWR rankings since it's worth 25% of their total score.
Found this interesting article done in 2005 by a professor at Emory. Others on CC seem to agree with his conclusions that Peer Assessment is linked to Graduate School Assessment.
LINK:
The Academic Exchange
He concludes through his analysis:
"Strictly from the perspective of enhancing the college’s reputation, then, improving the graduate school would appear to be a relatively effective, even optimal, policy."
It appears UF is indeed already laying the groundwork for higher Peer Review scores with all the money coming into it’s graduate programs.
It will however take some time to improve this number in order to increase the PA score.
THEREFORE: No chance of short term improvement here.