Going Back to the Source: A Second Look at Rankings

Autor: Hans Peter Hertig
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Universities, Rankings and the Dynamics of Global Higher Education ISBN: 9781137469984
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-46999-1_7
Popis: In this chapter the author closes the circle and discusses the power and limits of rankings in the light of the findings in the previous chapters. He suggests measures for the consideration of the rankers, aimed at improving their product’s accuracy, meaning and, ultimately, value. And he identifies the essential weakness of an instrument that aims to measure the performance and general quality of a university across science systems on a global scale: that it decontextualizes what should be evaluated in its context and compares what is hardly comparable.
Databáze: OpenAIRE