World university rankings and the future of higher education / / Kevin Downing and Fraide A. Ganotice, Jr., editors

• Autore: Downing Kevin
• Pubblicazione: Hershey, Pennsylvania : , : Information Science Reference, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: PDFs (533 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 378
• Soggetto topico: Universities and colleges - Ratings and rankings; Education, Higher - Evaluation
• Soggetto non controllato: Citation impact; Graduate employment; Institutional accreditation; Ranking bias; Student perspectives
• Persona (resp. second.): DowningKevin; GanoticeFraide A. <1975->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ranking world universities: a decade of refinement, and the road ahead / Ben Sowter, Shadi Hijazi, David Reggio -- Academic performance vs. academic reputation: what comes first: how well you perform or how others see your performance? / Aleksandra Radojicic, Marina Jovanovic-Milenkovic, Veljko Jeremic -- The origins of international rankings / John O'Leary -- University rankings: was academic life perfect before rankings? / Bertil Andersson, Tony Mayer -- The consequences of ranking: theory and reality / Judy Sin Lai Lam -- World class universities and the rest / David A. Turner -- Citations, open access and university rankings / Clive Baldock -- The impact of scale and scope on global university rankings: what we know and what we need to learn / Liang-Cheng Zhang, Andrew C. Worthington -- Analyzing the disciplinary focus of universities: can rankings be a one-size-fits-all? / Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras -- Role of university rankings in the context of lack of resources: national and institutional challenges / Magdalena Platis -- Do high ranked universities have better graduate employment outcomes? / Mahsood Shah, Hai Yen Vu, Winnie Eley -- Uses and abuses of ranking in university strategic planning / Zaw Wint, Kevin Downing -- How students choose the university: personal and institutional factors / Tatjana Kanonire -- ; Overcoming size and subject bias in rankings: a review of various trends and bias in data commonly used in rankings and methods to overcome them / Simon Michael Pratt -- Development and outcomes of a new institutional ranking system for public administration research and scholarship / Adam M. Williams, Derek R. Slagle -- Embedded colonial power: how global ranking systems set parameters for the recognition of knowers, knowledge, and the production of knowledge / Leslie D. Gonzales, Chelsea Waugaman -- Globalization of world university rankings and its impact on Asian universities / Fraide A. Ganotice Jr. [and 4 others] -- Rising up the ranks: a university's journey of change / Zulkarnain Hanafi, Chee Kiong Tong -- Institutional legacy as a context of the implementation of international rankings in the Russian higher education System / Natalia Karmaeva, Tatjana Kanonire -- Building a world-class university and the role of university ranking: a Russian case / Maxim B. Khomyakov -- University rankingphilia and phobia: emerging trajectories and quality assurance in Africa / Peter Akinsola Okebukola -- King Abdulaziz University path to the excellence: mapping between accreditation and ranking systems / Abdulfattah S. Mashat, Habib M. Fardoun.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the implementation of a ranking system for higher education institutions, providing a thorough overview of the impacts of these rankings on educational quality"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: World university rankings and the future of higher education
• ISBN: 9781522508205; 9781522508199
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136580303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in educational marketing, administration, and leadership (AEMAL) book series.