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September 24, 2008
Fresh Delay for National Research Council's Doctoral Assessments
The long wait for the National Research Council’s assessments and rankings of American doctoral programs just got a bit longer.
The council posted a notice on Wednesday indicating that its report — which had been scheduled for a late-September or early-October release — had been postponed again. This is the latest in a long series of calendar shuffles for the assessments, which have not been updated since a 1995 report.
The notice says that the project’s “methodology guide” — a preliminary report that will summarize the statistical techniques used in the new assessments — will be released in late October or early November. But no date has been set for the release of the assessments themselves.
Among the reasons for this year’s delays was a late decision to expand the range of publications that would be included when counting citations of faculty members’ scholarly work. That decision required a time-consuming analysis of a database provided by the Thomson Corporation.
The project’s director, Charlotte V. Kuh, offered a status report on the assessments during a July workshop sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools. —David Glenn
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…still trying to jimmie the numbers so the Ivies win!
— Miles Fornier Sep 25, 11:35 AM #
I doubt that. But this is like Waiting for Godot. It’s getting absurdist. Much like the 10-year wait for the reporting methods under the “new” (1997) race/ethnic standards. For nearly a decade Dept of Ed. said they would be released “very soon.” On and on ….
— DDVA Sep 29, 09:47 AM #