ERIC Number: EJ988383
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 13
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Learning How to Play Ball: Applying Sabermetric Thinking to Benchmarking in Higher Education
Levy, Gary D.
New Directions for Institutional Research, n156 p47-59 Win 2012
Although the notion is certainly cliched, baseball often serves as an excellent metaphor for life. Some of the methodologies currently being used to measure, evaluate, manage, and even play baseball may serve as references for ways that higher education may be measured, evaluated, managed, and played. This chapter proposes and presents applications of sabermetric thinking and some baseball sabermetric methodologies (James, 1982, 2001; Thorn and Palmer, 1985, 1991) to higher education benchmarking. As such, this chapter aims to offer new tools and thinking for conducting varied higher education benchmarking analyses more judiciously. (Contains 9 tables and 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Figurative Language, Team Sports, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Benchmarking
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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