World university rankings : statistical issues and possible remedies / Kaycheng Soh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Su, Qizhen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Ratings and rankings.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2017]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Don't Read University Rankings Like Reading Football League Tables: Taking a Close Look at the Indicators 1

Chapter 2 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: A Closer Look at the Top 10 in University Rankings 19

Chapter 3 Profiling Universities, Not Only Ranking Them: Maximizing the Information of Predictors 29

Chapter 4 World University Rankings: Take with a Large Pinch of Salt 49

Chapter 5 The U21 Rankings of National Higher Education Systems: Re-analyze to Optimize 67

Chapter 6 Book Review: U21 Ranking of National Higher Education Systems 87

Chapter 7 World University Rankings: What Is in for Top 10 East Asian Universities? 93

Chapter 8 Simpson's Paradox and Confounding Factors in University Rankings: A Demonstration Using QS 2011-2012 Data 117

Chapter 9 Nominal Versus Attained Weights in Universitas 21 Ranking 137

Chapter 10 Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 Ranking: Old Wine in A New Bottle? 145

Chapter 11 Misleading University Rankings: Cause and Cure for Discrepancies between Nominal and Attained Weights 159

Chapter 12 Rectifying an Honest Error in World University Rankings: A Solution to the Problem of Indicator Weight Discrepancies 173

Chapter 13 Multicollinearity and Indicator Redundancy Problem in World University Rankings: An Example Using Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2013-2014 Data 191

Chapter 14 Problems of Indicator Weights and Multicollinearity in World University Rankings: Comparisons of Three Systems 211

Chapter 15 What the Overall doesn't Tell About World University Rankings: Examples from ARWU, QSWUR, and THEWUR in 2013 229

Chapter 16 Nearing World-class: Singapore's Two Universities in QSWUR 2015/16 249

Chapter 17 Improved Academic Excellence Leading to Lower Rankings and Vice Versa: Examples of Inconsistency from Three World University Ranking Systems 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789813200791

9813200790

OCLC:

973481421