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News or Noise?

dc.contributor.authorDichev, Ilia D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-09-08T21:38:25Z
dc.date.available2006-09-08T21:38:25Z
dc.date.issued2001-06en_US
dc.identifier.citationDichev, Ilia; (2001). "News or Noise?." Research in Higher Education 42(3): 237-266. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43624>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0361-0365en_US
dc.identifier.issn1573-188Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43624
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the quality of the U.S. News annual ranking of national universities and liberal arts colleges. The main finding is that current rankings changes have a strong tendency to revert over the following two rankings. Using a simple model, this study estimates that about 70 to 80 percent of the variation in rankings changes is transitory and reversible. Thus, most of the “news” in the annual rankings is essentially meaningless noise. An analysis of possible explanations suggests that the noise in annual ranking changes is most likely due to various measurement, estimation, and other information processing errors in the rankings' underlying components.en_US
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Mediaen_US
dc.subject.otherEducationen_US
dc.subject.otherEducation Researchen_US
dc.subject.otherDevelopmental Psychologyen_US
dc.subject.otherPedagogic Psychologyen_US
dc.subject.otherRankingsen_US
dc.subject.otherU.S. Newsen_US
dc.subject.otherEducation (General)en_US
dc.subject.otherUniversityen_US
dc.titleNews or Noise?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEducationen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan Business School, 701 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1234en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43624/1/11162_2004_Article_297322.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018810005576en_US
dc.identifier.sourceResearch in Higher Educationen_US
dc.owningcollnameInterdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed


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