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Toward Devising Measures of Quality and Effectiveness across All Institutions
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Hurtado, Sylvia; Pryor, John H. – College and University, 2011
The primary users of the current college ranking systems do not seem to be high-school students and families, but college presidents, board members, and development officers. As structured, the commercial ranking systems imply a precision that is not corroborated by research on what matters in college, nor can college quality be accurately summed…
Descriptors: College Choice, Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness, School Effectiveness