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NRC Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs
NRC Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs
About the ratings study
- Expected date: April 2007.
- Aka "anchoring study" and "ratings questionnaire" and "rating
survey."
- Who will get the questionnaire: A sample of faculty who
respond to the faculty questionnaire by 2-22-07. These people are
called "raters."
- What the raters will get: An envelope in US mail with a cover
letter, a rating form, and a piece of paper for each of 15-20 programs
in the rater's (NRC) field. E.g. John Stevenson may see Yale
English, Michigan English Lit, Kent State English, etc.
- For each of the 15-20 programs, the rater will see: Program and
institution name, a list of faculty, student graduation rate, and a bit
of other info. The rater will rate familiarity with each of the
15-20 programs, and will also rate the "quality" of each one.
- What happens to the ratings collected: The ratings will never
be published. Instead, they are used to derive equations that say
something like this: In English, quality = Nbooks/fac * .32
+ Nhonors/fac * .55 + gradrate*1.2 +3.2. Later,
the equations will be used to CALCULATE "ratings" for ALL
programs, with the quantitative factors like Nbooks/fac, Nhonors/fac,
and gradrate, as inputs.
- Info at the NRC site
- Why you might want to be a rater: You have strong or unusual
feelings about what determines quality in your field and are
prepared to make ratings that reflect those feelings, or you're a
good citizen.
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