What is the impact of administering standardized language proficiency tests such as the TOEFL iBT (which measures university-level language) to 11 and 12-year olds?
This is based on a poll of academics, who nominate the best institutions in their narrow field of expertise, so measuring universities' prestige.
While this is a "blunt instrument" for measuring universities' potential to do well in the next year's RAE, it does give a first indication of how they will fare.
Marsden also warned that the introduction of the "teaching excellence framework" (TEF), designed to measure universities' performance, could be used as "a Trojan horse to increase fees even further and unleash the full force of the market in higher education".
4) Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) So Green Paper is out and the TEF ideas are quite startlingly bad https://t.co/RZSDBtG5co The TEF will measure universities' performance on market-oriented metrics, including graduate employment, and the NCAFC has said: "This will define good teaching as little more than increasing the value of our work to employers and big business.
The various ranking systems that currently measure university performance do not necessarily reflect those market spaces, particularly within newer trajectories.
In 2012, the LSE students' union argued for a boycott of the NSS, saying that it was an uninformative tool for measuring university performance.
Another reader, Sandra Wilde of the City University of New York, suggested that by any measure — university rules or the common-sense use of one's conscience — Mr. Klosterman was off base.
There is a need, then, for alternative success measures for universities serving students with variable enrollment patterns and great variability in their student populations.
MIAMI — Florida A&M University's celebrated band, the Marching 100, will remain on suspension until the university can put in place strong antihazing measures, the university's president said Monday.
