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Joseph Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Higher education institutions play a key role in achieving sustainable development and creating a pathway toward a sustainable future by reducing the adverse impact that campus operations have on the environment and make positive contributions to society by conducting research and teaching students, faculty, staff, and the community about…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Sustainability, Achievement, Higher Education
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Taylor, Joseph A.; Davis, Elisabeth; Michaelson, Laura E. – Review of Research in Education, 2021
In this chapter, we describe and compare the standards for evidence used by three entities that review studies of education interventions: Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development, Social Programs that Work, and the What Works Clearinghouse. Based on direct comparisons of the evidence frameworks, we identify key differences in the level at which…
Descriptors: Evidence, Standards, Educational Research, Intervention
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Gapsalamov, Almaz; Akhmetshin, Elvir; Bochkareva, Tatyana; Vasilev, Vladimir; Anisimova, Tatyana – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
The quality of national education depends on many factors, which traditionally include adult literacy, the total share of students receiving general, secondary vocational and higher education, the level of the material and technical base, etc. Based on these factors, a list of leading countries by the level of education is formed. The authors…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Competition, Foreign Countries, Information Technology
Jacob M. Wertz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation contains three empirical papers that quantify how institutional status hierarchies in postgraduate education relate to professionals' employment and earnings outcomes. Chapter 1 examines the effects of postgraduate educational program status hierarchies on earnings among recipients of postgraduate professional degrees in…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Income, Salaries, Employment
Erica Harbatkin; Betsy Wolf – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) began a new wave of school accountability under which states draw on multiple measures to assess school quality. States have options in terms of how to weight components in their school quality indices and how many years of data to use to determine school ratings. In this study, we simulate school ratings…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Legislation
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Sioux McKenna – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The multi-billion-dollar university rankings industry purports to offer insights into the quality of institutions, but the extent to which it does so has consistently been refuted. Critics argue that problematic proxies, composite indexing, homogenising effects, and several other issues make them both unscientific and neo-colonial. This article…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Neoliberalism, Academic Rank (Professional), Reputation
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Hansen, Brooke; Stiling, Peter; Uy, Whitney Fung – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: As the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted since 2015, higher education institutions (HEIs) are experimenting with ways they can be measured, reported and incorporated into all realms of the university. In this process, the challenges of SDG integration into HEIs have become more evident, from lack of…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Universities
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David Loy; Rhonda Nelson; Jared Allsop; Carol Johnston – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2024
Accreditation is a critical process in maintaining standards of consistency and excellence in the academic preparation of students for their chosen profession. While academic programs, professional associations, and credentialing organizations all recognize the importance of programmatic accreditation in recreational therapy professional…
Descriptors: Therapeutic Recreation, Accreditation (Institutions), Scores, Tests
Timothy J. Groulx – Contributions to Music Education, 2023
Racial disparities in band ratings have existed since schools were integrated, but recent studies have suggested such disparities may be more closely associated with poverty than race. Previous research on school segregation focused on differences between Black and White schools, but the United States has become more diverse since the 1965…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Music Activities
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Stack, Michelle – International Review of Education, 2021
University leaders, governments, industries and donors use university rankings to assess the success or failure of higher education institutions; however, these rankings tell us nothing about how universities are challenging or amplifying oppression in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article first examines the implications of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Universities, Institutional Characteristics
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Liu, Shuiyun – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
University rankings have become increasingly popular and have penetrated higher education globally. However, it is disputable whether rankings can contribute to the quality assurance of higher education institutions. The present study examined this issue by exploring the mechanism of rankings as an external force influencing university change. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Evaluation, Quality Assurance
Gee, E. Gordon; Gavazzi, Stephen M. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Higher education gets a bad rap these days. The public perception is that there is a growing rift between public universities and the elected officials who support them. In "What's Public about Public Higher Ed?," Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee explore the reality of that supposed divide, offering qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Education, Public Opinion, Universities
Chirikov, Igor – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Global university rankings influence students' choices and higher education policies throughout the world. When rankers not only evaluate universities but also provide them with consulting, analytics, or advertising services rankers are vulnerable to conflicts of interest that may potentially distort their rankings. The paper assesses the impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Achievement Rating, Institutional Characteristics
Morgan, Kimberly J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The topic of the research study is published academic rankings and teacher efficacy. A need for the study was based upon a gap within the literature that showed little is known about the influence of published academic achievement rankings on teacher efficacy. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to investigate teachers' perceptions in…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Educational Indicators, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics
Bleemer, Zachary; Kumar, Mukul; Mehta, Aashish; Muellerleile, Chris; Newfield, Christopher – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
High school and college students are inundated by indicators and rankings supposedly designed to help them decide where to go to college and what to study once they arrive. In "Metrics That Matter," coauthors Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Chris Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield take a critical look at these metrics…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, College Choice, Universities
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