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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971617903321

Autore

Lamont Michele <1957->

Titolo

How professors think : inside the curious world of academic judgment / / Michele Lamont

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

9780674054158

0674054156

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/2

Soggetti

College teachers - Rating of

Peer review

Teacher effectiveness

Portfolios in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Opening the black box of peer review -- How panels work -- On disciplinary cultures -- Pragmatic fairness : customary rules of deliberation -- Recognizing various kinds of excellence -- Considering interdisciplinarity and diversity -- Implications in the United States and abroad.

Sommario/riassunto

Judging quality isn't robotically rational; it's emotional, cognitive, and social, too. Yet most academics' self-respect is rooted in their ability to analyze complexity and recognize quality, in order to come to the fairest decisions about that elusive god, "excellence." In How Professors Think, Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential process of evaluation and to push the gatekeepers to both better understand and perform their role. --from publisher description.