Quantifying Quality: What Can the U.S. News and World Report Rankings Tell Us about the Quality of Higher Education?

Creator

Marguerite Clarke

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

March 2002

Abstract

… he research presented here addresses two of the most common criticisms of the methodology used to produce these rankings. In particular, this study answers the following questions: What is the extent of change in U.S. News' ranking formulas across years and what are the implications for interpreting shifts in a school's rank over time? How precise is the overall score that U.S. News uses to rank schools and what are the implications for assigning schools to discrete ranks? ...

Extent

20

Volume

10

Issue

16

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Clarke, M. (2002, March 20). Quantifying Quality: What can the U.S. News and World Report rankings tell us about the quality of higher education? Education Policy Analysis Archives, 10(16). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n16/.

Identifier

E11-00264

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Recommended Citation

Clarke, Marguerite, "Quantifying Quality: What Can the U.S. News and World Report Rankings Tell Us about the Quality of Higher Education?" (2002). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 405.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/405