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标题：27. The Sophistry of University Rankings: Implications for Learning and Student Welfare
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作者：Stewart Page ; Kenneth M. Cramer ; Laura Page 等
期刊名称：Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching
电子版ISSN：2368-4526
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
DOI：10.22329/celt.v2i0.3221
语种：English
出版社：University of Windsor
摘要：We present a data-based perspective concerning the recent Maclean’s magazine rankings of Canadian universities, including cluster and other analyses of the 2007 and 2008 data. Canadian universities empirically resemble and relate to each other in a manner different from their formal classification and final rank ordering in the Maclean’s system. Several pitfalls in ranking procedures, related to invalid and unreliable relationships among indices underlying the final ranks, are outlined, along with relevant findings from previous studies. In their present format, although they have become increasingly publicized and promoted, data based on the Maclean’s system are of limited practical use to students. Perhaps more important, ranking exercises have unintended though potentially serious consequences in terms of the intellectual and personal well-being of students.