Just how ridiculous is Peer Assessment?

xiggi
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:19:08 +0000

if you remove PA from the rankings, i feel like you have a list of interchangable statistics which basically tell you how hard it is to get into a school, and what percentage of students graduate on time.



Interchangeable statistics without the PA?

Does this mean that the entire ranking then depends on the PA aka the opinion of a few. An opinion seems to be based on gamemanship, lack of direct knowledge, or a blatant disregard of what they are supposed to measure.

Of course, when measuring the quality of education at the undergraduate level, we SHOULD really measure the graduate school, the reputation of teachers who may not have seen the inside of a class in years, count the Nobel Prize winners that are ghosts to undergraduate; we should overlook the 300-500 persons auditoriums and the small army of Teaching Assistants, Fellows, or whatever fancy names a school tags on its indentured servants who are magically anointed with the capability of being teachers.

Sure!