NRC methodology released, results still forthcoming ...

tk21769
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:49:04 +0000

I like the fact that they’ve moved away from peer assessments. I always thought that makes rankings too vulnerable to halo effects. I’m not too concerned about the 3 year lag (though I’d be more so if I were applying for admission.) I like the idea of tiers/bands rather than single-point rankings.

If they are issuing a single composite score, then I don’t like the idea of including demographic features such as race/gender diversity in the score. These may be very important to a student’s experience; however, in my opinion they should be kept separate from the academic quality factors. But it sounds like those factors will be broken down into sub-scores too.