Just how ridiculous is Peer Assessment?

bluebayou
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:31:01 +0000

xiggi:

hope you didn’t miss your favorite ed guy, Lloyd Thacker on the Today Show. Man, I hope his PR team gives him better talking points, since he was creamed by the editor from USNews.

Llloyd basically made two points, (which in my mind are inconsistent): 1) USNEws ranking is bad because “they measure the wrong things”; 2) he is bringing colleges together at Yale bcos “colleges don’t know what to measure…” How, then, Lloyd, can USNews be measuring the wrong thing if the colleges themselves don’t know what the right things are? :rolleyes: