08-05-2014, 02:18 PM
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http://time.com/71782/make-your-own-college-ranking/
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دانشگاه ریورساید در رتبه بندی کاخ سفید اول شد!!!
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http://time.com/71782/make-your-own-college-ranking/
متن اصلی خبر
Obama Thinks He Can Rate Colleges.
See how colleges stack up based on what you think is most important in a school
Last year, the Obama Administration announced a plan to assess schools on how well they serve their students, based on metrics like graduation rate, tuition, and the percentage of students who receive Pell Grants, the federally funded scholarships for low-income families. For a system that has yet to be put in place, the White House’s college ratings have created a great deal of panic.To see how those ratings might play out, TIME gathered data for 2,500 college and universities and ranked them according to the proposed metrics. But we’ve left it to you to adjust how important each of those metrics should be. Adjust the sliders, and watch the the schools reshuffle.
As Haley Sweetland Edwards notes in the most recent issue of TIME, many college presidents are convinced that the ratings proposed by the Obama administration would fail to capture the value of their schools. The White House insists that far too many sub-par schools are cashing in on federal student loans and leaving their students in the lurch.The White House is proposing to take a bunch a date of data about schools and determine a rank for each. This would produce an algorithm that functions in many ways like Google’s ranking of Web pages. In the case of search engines, the exact nature of this algorithm is a secret. The White House’s algorithm will presumably not be secret, meaning it will be quite easy for schools to game the system.That sounds like a bad thing, but it doesn’t have to be. When algorithms work well, they reward good behavior. In the same way that the Google algorithm rewards sites that offer clear descriptions of the content and coherent navigation, a good college ranking algorithm could inspire schools to offer better grants to those who can’t afford the tuition and provide help for those at risk of dropping out. A poorly designed algorithm, meanwhile, could incentivize them to shut out students who have lower statistical odds of graduating.The interactive at the top of this article presents a simplified rating system based on three qualities the White House has mentioned: Graduation rate, accessibility and affordability. For accessibility, the interactive uses the percentage of students who receive Pell Grants. For affordability, we’ve used the net cost paid by families who makes less than $110,000 a year and receive some form of aid.By rewarding both accessibility and graduation rate, this system corners one of the trickiest problems facing schools looking to climb the rankings: Students from low-income backgrounds are statistically less likely to graduate. The most expedient way for a school to boost its graduate rate would be not to admit students in this cohort. Doing so, however, would theoretically hurt the school in the accessibility category more than it boosted the school in the graduation category, resulting in a drop in the ratings. At least, this is how a good White House algorithm would work. Fine-tuning the formula to work as advertised would require a sophisticated statistical analysis of the data. In the meantime, you can drag the sliders around to see which schools would rise to the top given existing numbers.
Methodology
All data comes from the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Each school is evaluated according to its six-year graduation rate, the percentage of full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving Pell grants and the net cost for students receiving any form of aid whose families make less than $110,000 a year. That figure is calculated by TIME as the weighted average net cost for students in each of the Department of Education’s reported income brackets. Where that data is not available, overall net cost (tuition and fees minus grants and scholarships) is used.These three data points are standardized, so that each school’s score is the number of standard deviations above or below the mean. The app then adjusts these values according to the position of the sliders, sums the square roots of those values, and takes the square of the sum. (A detailed discussion of that method is available here.)The classifications of schools come from the Carnegie classification system. Schools without a Carnegie class are not included.
Update, May 6, 2014
See how colleges stack up based on what you think is most important in a school
Last year, the Obama Administration announced a plan to assess schools on how well they serve their students, based on metrics like graduation rate, tuition, and the percentage of students who receive Pell Grants, the federally funded scholarships for low-income families. For a system that has yet to be put in place, the White House’s college ratings have created a great deal of panic.To see how those ratings might play out, TIME gathered data for 2,500 college and universities and ranked them according to the proposed metrics. But we’ve left it to you to adjust how important each of those metrics should be. Adjust the sliders, and watch the the schools reshuffle.
As Haley Sweetland Edwards notes in the most recent issue of TIME, many college presidents are convinced that the ratings proposed by the Obama administration would fail to capture the value of their schools. The White House insists that far too many sub-par schools are cashing in on federal student loans and leaving their students in the lurch.The White House is proposing to take a bunch a date of data about schools and determine a rank for each. This would produce an algorithm that functions in many ways like Google’s ranking of Web pages. In the case of search engines, the exact nature of this algorithm is a secret. The White House’s algorithm will presumably not be secret, meaning it will be quite easy for schools to game the system.That sounds like a bad thing, but it doesn’t have to be. When algorithms work well, they reward good behavior. In the same way that the Google algorithm rewards sites that offer clear descriptions of the content and coherent navigation, a good college ranking algorithm could inspire schools to offer better grants to those who can’t afford the tuition and provide help for those at risk of dropping out. A poorly designed algorithm, meanwhile, could incentivize them to shut out students who have lower statistical odds of graduating.The interactive at the top of this article presents a simplified rating system based on three qualities the White House has mentioned: Graduation rate, accessibility and affordability. For accessibility, the interactive uses the percentage of students who receive Pell Grants. For affordability, we’ve used the net cost paid by families who makes less than $110,000 a year and receive some form of aid.By rewarding both accessibility and graduation rate, this system corners one of the trickiest problems facing schools looking to climb the rankings: Students from low-income backgrounds are statistically less likely to graduate. The most expedient way for a school to boost its graduate rate would be not to admit students in this cohort. Doing so, however, would theoretically hurt the school in the accessibility category more than it boosted the school in the graduation category, resulting in a drop in the ratings. At least, this is how a good White House algorithm would work. Fine-tuning the formula to work as advertised would require a sophisticated statistical analysis of the data. In the meantime, you can drag the sliders around to see which schools would rise to the top given existing numbers.
Methodology
All data comes from the Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Each school is evaluated according to its six-year graduation rate, the percentage of full-time, first-time undergraduates receiving Pell grants and the net cost for students receiving any form of aid whose families make less than $110,000 a year. That figure is calculated by TIME as the weighted average net cost for students in each of the Department of Education’s reported income brackets. Where that data is not available, overall net cost (tuition and fees minus grants and scholarships) is used.These three data points are standardized, so that each school’s score is the number of standard deviations above or below the mean. The app then adjusts these values according to the position of the sliders, sums the square roots of those values, and takes the square of the sum. (A detailed discussion of that method is available here.)The classifications of schools come from the Carnegie classification system. Schools without a Carnegie class are not included.
Update, May 6, 2014
کد:
1
University of California-Riverside
2
University of California-San Diego
3
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
4
University of California-Irvine
5
College of the Ozarks
6
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
7
University of California-Davis
8
Christian Brothers University
9
CUNY Brooklyn College
10
Salem College
11
Dominican University
12
William Carey University
13
CUNY Queens College
14
California State University-Long Beach
15
University of Illinois at Chicago
16
Rutgers University-Newark
17
University of California-Santa Cruz
18
Elizabeth City State University
19
Texas A & M International University
20
Tougaloo College
21
University of California-Santa Barbara
22
The University of Texas-Pan American
23
University of South Florida-Main Campus
24
California State University-Los Angeles
25
Lane College
26
California State University-Fresno
27
Coker College
28
California State University-Stanislaus
29
College of Saint Elizabeth
30
North Carolina Central University
31
University of California-Los Angeles
32
CUNY Lehman College
33
California State University-Dominguez Hills
34
Fayetteville State University
35
University of Florida
36
Carlow University
37
California State University-San Bernardino
38
Harvard University
39
Rust College
40
The University of Texas at El Paso
41
Touro College
42
North Carolina A & T State University
43
Granite State College
44
Winston-Salem State University
45
CUNY City College
46
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
47
California State University-Bakersfield
48
CUNY College of Staten Island
49
Tennessee State University
50
Amherst College
51
University of Maine at Farmington
52
Jackson State University
53
Holy Family University
54
CUNY York College
55
Fresno Pacific University
56
Southern University at New Orleans
57
Stanford University
58
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
59
Prairie View A & M University
60
Savannah State University
61
University of California-Berkeley
62
Stony Brook University
63
University of Idaho
64
The University of Tennessee-Martin
65
Murray State University
66
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
67
Monmouth College
68
Rutgers University-Camden
69
The University of Texas at Brownsville
70
Vanderbilt University
71
SUNY College at Brockport
72
California State University-Northridge
73
Mississippi University for Women
74
Buffalo State SUNY
75
Albany State University
76
Columbia College
77
Langston University
78
Morris College
79
Texas Woman's University
80
Pomona College
81
Eastern Illinois University
82
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
83
CUNY Hunter College
84
Adrian College
85
The College of Idaho
86
Virginia State University
87
Claflin University
88
New Jersey City University
89
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
90
Wayne State College
91
Bowdoin College
92
CUNY Medgar Evers College
93
Cedar Crest College
94
Vassar College
95
University of Virginia-Main Campus
96
Southern Arkansas University Main Campus
97
University of Pennsylvania
98
Williams College
99
Florida International University
100
Alabama A & M University