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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 32
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What Do Rankings Measure? The U.S. News Rankings and Student Experience at Liberal Arts Colleges
Kim, Jeongeun; Shim, Woo-jeong
Review of Higher Education, v42 n3 p933-964 Spr 2019
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the validity of college rankings, by investigating to what extent measurements employed by rankings are good proxies for evaluating educational practices at liberal arts colleges. Using a hierarchical linear modeling with data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) college rankings, we found that overall ranking scores did not predict students' exposure to good practices, but scores on some measures had a limited yet significant association with students' experiences of good practices at liberal arts colleges.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Rating, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Periodicals, Consumer Education, Validity, Colleges, Liberal Arts, Measurement, Scores, College Students, Student Experience, Outcomes of Education, Educational Practices
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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