Measuring Quality: A Comparison of U.S. News Rankings and NSSE Benchmarks

By Gary R. Pike. 2004

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Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

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Getting on the Front Page: Organizational Reputation, Status Signals, and the Impact of U.S. News and World Report on Student Decisions (2009, background): “…backlash from many colleges (Thacker 2005) and a number of recent empirical studies on the various effects of undergraduate and graduate school rankings (Griffith and Rask 2007; Martins 2005; Meredith 2004; Pike 2004; Rindova et al. 2005; Sauder and Lancaster 2006; Volkwein and Sweitzer 2006).”
Validating NSSE Against Student Outcomes: Are They Related? (2008, unknown): “Pike (2004) introduced an alternative grouping of NSSE items that he termed “scalelets.””
How College Affects Students: Ten Directions for Future Research (2006, background): “…of the students enrolled, there is little empirical support for the develop mental value added of an institution’s selectiv ity or its prestige based on national magazine rankings (e.g., Flowers, Osterlind, Pascarella, & Pierson, 2001; Hagedorn et al., 1999; Kuh & Pascarella, 2004; Pike, 2004).”
What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature (2006, background): “Institutional resources and reputation featured in college rankings are largely irrelevant to high quality educational experiences as measured by student engagement in educationally purposeful activities (Kuh and Pascarella 2004; Pike 2004).”
Quality Disclosure and Certification: Theory and Practice (2010, background): “…); Jin, Kato and List (2008); Kliger and Sarig (2000); Lim (2001); Loffler (2005); Macher, Mayo and Nickerson (2008); Michaely and Womack (1999); Pike (2004); Scanlon, Chernew, Sheffler, and Fendrick (1998); Tan and Wang (2008); Thompson and Vaz (1990) Political forces behind quality disclosure…”
How Sound Is NSSE?: Investigating the Psychometric Properties of NSSE at a Public, Research-Extensive Institution (2011, background): “, SAT scores) has led to appraising institutional quality based on student characteristics rather than the value-added that colleges and universities bestow on their students (Meredith, 2004; O’Meara, 2007; Pike, 2004; Volkwein & Sweitzer, 2006).”
New challenges for higher education: global and Asia-Pacific perspectives (2009, background): “Rankings have had major effects on the behavior of institutions and government policymakers who tend to view rankings as key measures of institutional competitiveness (e.g., Dichev 2001; Longden 2007; Marginson 2007; Pike 2004).”
Reconsidering the Relationship Between Student Engagement and Persistence in College (2011, methodology): “Engagement scores have been widely used in documenting institutional quality as in the NSSE annual reports, and colleges and universities that score high on engagement measures are occasionally featured as exemplars (National Survey of Student Engagement 2004, 2005; Pike 2004 ).”