{"id":62,"date":"2009-08-19T09:47:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-08-19T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:52:56","slug":"assessing-us-news-peer-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2009\/08\/19\/assessing-us-news-peer-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing US News Peer Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a>, Stephanie Lee, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/08\/19\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\">Reputation Without Rigor,<\/a>\u00a0looks at the methodology behind the US News\u00a0peer assessment survey.\u00a0\u00a0 Inside Higher Ed obtained the peer assessment survey form submitted by 48 of the top100 public universities in 2009 US News university rankings.\u00a0 While she found some gaming, some &#8220;major oddities,&#8221; most respondents\u00a0gave &#8220;honest,\u00a0if imperfect&#8221; responses.\u00a0 \u00a0Her overall conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the reputational survey is subject to problems, such as haphazard responses and apathetic respondents, that add to the lingering questions about its legitimacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the persons who responded on behalf of universities complained of the difficulty of giving an overall evaluation of a university, as opposed to particular programs.\u00a0 Presumably, that&#8217;s less of a problem for the law-school survey.\u00a0 The real problem was time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ten hours. With 260-some colleges, giving each two or three minutes of attention, that\u2019s how long it would take to adequately respond to the U.S. News survey, estimates Daniel M. Fogel, president of the University of Vermont. And he says that\u2019s time no one like him can afford to spend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the number of law schools at\u00a0200 or so (and growing!), the time problem\u00a0also affects the law-school peer assessment surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Rosin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Inside Higher Ed, Stephanie Lee, in Reputation Without Rigor,\u00a0looks at the methodology behind the US News\u00a0peer assessment survey.\u00a0\u00a0 Inside Higher Ed obtained the peer assessment survey form submitted by 48 of the top100 public universities in 2009 US News university rankings.\u00a0 While she found some gaming, some &#8220;major oddities,&#8221; most respondents\u00a0gave &#8220;honest,\u00a0if imperfect&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rankings","tag-peer-assessment","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}