What Do Rankings Measure? The U.S. News Rankings and Student Experience at Liberal Arts Colleges

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Jeongeun; Shim, Woo-jeong
Titel	What Do Rankings Measure? The U.S. News Rankings and Student Experience at Liberal Arts Colleges
Quelle	In: Review of Higher Education, 42 (2019) 3, S.933-964 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-5748
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Achievement Rating; Institutional Characteristics; Reputation; Periodicals; Consumer Education; Validity; Colleges; Liberal Arts; Measurement; Scores; College Students; Student Experience; Outcomes of Education; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Achievement; Rating; Leistung; Beurteilung; Leistungsbeurteilung; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Konsumerziehung; Gültigkeit; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Messverfahren; Collegestudent; Studienerfahrung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	The purpose of this study is to evaluate the validity of college rankings, by investigating to what extent measurements employed by rankings are good proxies for evaluating educational practices at liberal arts colleges. Using a hierarchical linear modeling with data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) college rankings, we found that overall ranking scores did not predict students' exposure to good practices, but scores on some measures had a limited yet significant association with students' experiences of good practices at liberal arts colleges. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01