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World University Rankings: Statistical Issues And Possible Remedies (Hardcover)
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World University Rankings: Statistical Issues And Possible Remedies (Hardcover)
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World university ranking started one and a half decades ago for the
purpose of understanding what makes an excellent institution of
higher education. Subsequent to the appearance of the Academic
Ranking of World Universities at the Shanghai Jiaotong University,
there soon emerged the QS World University Rankings and the Times
Higher Education World University Rankings. These three ranking
systems are considered the classics as they are the fore-runners,
although no less than ten new systems have come to the arena.The
various ranking systems adopt a common approach of weight-and-sum
to process the indicator data. Each system, somewhat arbitrarily,
decides on a set of indicators and assigns different weights to
these, presumably reflecting their relative importance. This simple
(and simplistic) approach meets well common sense. And, in fact,
much of the discussion on world university rankings is conducted at
the commonsensical level.However, analyses conducted in the recent
years uncovered several problems of the prevalent approach:
spurious precision, mutual compensation, weight discrepancy,
indicator redundancy, etc., which render the overall scores and
ranking suspect in terms of validity. These are due to systems
ignoring the fact that world university rankings are a form of
social measurement and therefore need be seen from this
perspective.Moreover, rankings encourage competition and, in the
highly competitive world of today, it is natural that institutional
attention is focused on the ranking results. By now, the original
purpose of world university ranking seems to have been
overshadowed, and world university rankings look more like
international academic contests, as though they are annual sports
meets.This monograph collects together many articles pertaining to
the identified measurement and statistical issues of world
university rankings and suggests remedies to make ranking results
more trustworthy.
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