Journal articles: 'Peer Rankings'

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Bernardino, Pedro, and Rui Cunha Marques. "Academic rankings: an approach to rank portuguese universities." Ensaio: Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação 18, no. 66 (March 2010): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-40362010000100003.

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The academic rankings are a controversial subject in higher education. However, despite all the criticism, academic rankings are here to stay and more and more different stakeholders use rankings to obtain information about the institutions' performance. The two most well-known rankings, The Times and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings have different methodologies. The Times ranking is based on peer review, whereas the Shanghai ranking has only quantitative indicators and is mainly based on research outputs. In Germany, the CHE ranking uses a different methodology from the traditional rankings, allowing the users to choose criteria and weights. The Portuguese higher education institutions are performing below their European peers, and the Government believes that an academic ranking could improve both performance and competitiveness between institutions. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the advantages and problems of academic rankings and provide guidance to a new Portuguese ranking.

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Ghiasi, Amir, Grigorios Fountas, Panagiotis Anastasopoulos, and Fred Mannering. "Statistical assessment of peer opinions in higher education rankings." Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education 11, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 481–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jarhe-09-2018-0196.

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Purpose Unlike many other quantitative characteristics used to determine higher education rankings, opinion-based peer assessment scores and the factors that may influence them are not well understood. Using peer scores of US colleges of engineering as reported annually in US News and World Report (USNews) rankings, the purpose of this paper is to provide some insights into peer assessments by statistically identifying factors that influence them. Design/methodology/approach With highly detailed data, a random parameters linear regression is estimated to statistically identify the factors determining a college of engineering’s average USNews peer assessment score. Findings The findings show that a wide variety of college- and university-specific attributes influence average peer impressions of a university’s college of engineering including the size of the faculty, the quality of admitted students and the quality of the faculty measured by their citation data and other factors. Originality/value The paper demonstrates that average peer assessment scores can be readily and accurately predicted with observable data on the college of engineering and the university as a whole. In addition, the individual parameter estimates from the statistical modeling in this paper provide insights as to how specific college and university attributes can help guide policies to improve an individual college’s average peer assessment scores and its overall ranking.

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O'Carroll, Conor. "International peer review improved Irish research rankings." Nature 460, no. 7258 (August 2009): 949. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/460949a.

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Harnad, S. "Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings." Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 (June 3, 2008): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/esep00088.

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Collins, Paul M. "Reputational Rankings of Peer-Reviewed Law Journals: A Survey Approach." PS: Political Science & Politics 51, no. 02 (April 2018): 377–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096517002529.

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ABSTRACTThis article presents the results of the first-ever survey that captures how political scientists view peer-reviewed law journals with regard to overall impact, familiarity, and article quality, as well as reading and submission preferences. In addition, it examines the extent to which the evaluation of journal quality differs depending on a researcher’s methodological approach. I find that scholars generally agree on a set of top peer-reviewed law journals, although some differences do exist based on the methodological approach of the respondent. These results can be used by a wide range of scholars to formulate publication strategies and evaluate the scholarly productivity of their peers.

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Bawabe, Sarah, Laura Wilson, Tongyu Zhou, Ezra Marks, and Jeff Huang. "The UX Factor: Using Comparative Peer Review to Evaluate Designs through User Preferences." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2 (October 13, 2021): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3479863.

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Peer review has been used in both online and offline classrooms to inspire creativity, gather feedback, and lessen instructor grading loads, especially for design-based tasks without definitive rubrics. To explore the nuances and quality of peer feedback, we developed UX Factor, a peer grading platform that aims to characterize the behavior of peer reviews and the consistency of the ranking models used to aggregate these reviews. This system harnesses the power of pairwise comparisons to minimize bias and encourage context-driven analysis. We adopted UX Factor in a user interface course of 133 students and teaching assistants (TAs) across 3 different individual design projects over a semester and found that the system was effective in eliciting high-quality feedback. We saw that raters have higher agreement than random preferences, and with at least 15 ratings per submission, a simple average of ratings produced rankings that were consistent to both the raw ratings and other more complex models. These rankings were robust to disagreeable raters and changing class sizes, demonstrating the potential of comparative peer review to match the quality of expert feedback at scale.

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Howard, Louise, and Greg Wilkinson. "Peer review and editorial decision-making." British Journal of Psychiatry 173, no. 2 (August 1998): 110–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.173.2.110.

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IntroductionThis paper describes and analyses the editor's decision-making process at the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP), and investigates the association between reviewers' assessments and editorial decisions.MethodFour hundred consecutive manuscripts submitted over a six-month period to the BJP were examined prospectively for assessors' comments and editorial decisions on acceptance or rejection. Interrater reliability of assessments was calculated and a logistic regression analysis investigated the effect of the rank allocated by assessors and the comprehensiveness of the assessments on the editor's decision.ResultsThe editor sent 248/400 (62%) manuscripts to assessors for peer review. Kappa for reliability of assessors' rankings was 0.1 indicating poor interrater reliability. Assessors agreed best on whether to reject a paper. A ranking of five (indicating rejection) had the greatest association with editor's rejection (P < 0.001, odds ratio 0.079), and the mean ranking of assessments was also significantly associated with editorial acceptance or rejection (P=0.004, odds ratio 0.24)ConclusionAssessors and editors tend to agree on what is clearly not acceptable for publication but there is less agreement on what is suitable.

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Seymour, Harold L. "Peer Academic Rankings and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale." Perceptual and Motor Skills 62, no. 2 (April 1986): 517–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1986.62.2.517.

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Two studies are used to evaluate children's ability to rank their peers' academic achievement, their own achievement, and to see how these rankings relate to children's academic self-concept. Analysis shows that elementary-school aged children can accurately rank the achievement of their peers and themselves. Also peers' rankings for academic achievement interact significantly with children's academic self-concepts. Self-rankings and actual achievement do not. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of considering peers when evaluating a child.

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Cahn, E. Susanna. "Journal Rankings." International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector 6, no. 4 (October 2014): 92–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijisss.2014100106.

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Research productivity is important in school reputation as well as individual faculty evaluation. In order to evaluate research productivity, the quality of research is often measured by proxy through the number of journal articles and ratings of the journals in which they appear. Because of this there is significant pressure on faculty to publish in the “top journals”. There are several metrics for evaluating and ranking journals, each of them with its own merits and limitations. Some commonly used quantitative measures of research quality are citation analyses, acceptance rates, and whether or not a journal is peer reviewed. Alternatively, journals can be ranked qualitatively into stratified groups based on reputation. Reputation, in turn, may be correlated with perceived values of quantitative measures, and thus is more subjective. The purpose of this research is to examine the extent of correlation between various measures of journal quality, in particular between quantitative and qualitative measures. The various measures are compared to examine the extent to which they are similar. Comparisons were also made among business departments. For this sample, overall journal rank was correlated with citation rate but not with acceptance rate. However, quantitative measures were not consistent among academic departments, indicating that journal rank can not be reliably used to make interdepartmental comparisons.

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Clark, Timothy, and Mike Wright. "Reviewing Journal Rankings and Revisiting Peer Reviews: Editorial Perspectives." Journal of Management Studies 44, no. 4 (June 2007): 612–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00701.x.

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Allen, Ryan M. "A Comparison of China’s “Ivy League” to Other Peer Groupings Through Global University Rankings." Journal of Studies in International Education 21, no. 5 (March 17, 2017): 395–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1028315317697539.

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This article analyzes the People’s Republic of China’s elite-making higher education policies that began in the early 1990s, notably with the 211 Project and then 985 Project, which led to the formation of the C9 League, a group of nine leading institution’s dubbed China’s “Ivy League.” This elite grouping is compared with other Chinese universities in terms of global rankings from 2003 to 2015 to ascertain the separation by these top tiered institutions. Furthermore, the C9 League will be compared with other global elite coalitions in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom over the same period. University rankings, despite considerable criticism, have provided the Chinese leadership with key benchmarks for their vision of world-class higher education. This article finds that the C9 League has made some separation from other Chinese universities and has also caught up with its Western peers (notably passing Canada’s U15) in terms of international rankings.

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Vanderstraeten, Raf. "Publikations- und Evaluationspraktiken in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften, 1930–2020: Eine Fallstudie." Zeitschrift für Soziologie 50, no. 3-4 (August 1, 2021): 274–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2021-0019.

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Zusammenfassung Wissenschaft wird häufig als selbstorganisierendes und selbstkontrollierendes System beschrieben, und die wissenschaftliche Fachliteratur mit ihren Peer-Review-Verfahren als das Grundmodell dieser Form der Selbstorganisation. Der Genese dieses Modells wurde jedoch bisher kaum historisch-soziologische Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Die vorherrschende Perspektive hat eher dazu ermutigt, zeitgenössische Ideen über gute und schlechte Wissenschaft auf frühere Epochen zurück zu projizieren. In dieser Arbeit analysiere ich die Geschichte einflussreicher Fachzeitschriften im Bereich der Erziehungswissenschaft. Ich beschäftige mich mit den sich verändernden Erwartungen an Herausgeber und Autoren und gehe näher ein auf die sich ändernde Bedeutung von Peers und Peer Review. Die dominanten Bewertungsmechanismen heben auch die Bedeutung von Peer-Reviewed Publikationen hervor. Insgesamt zeigen diese Analysen, dass die soziale Struktur der Wissenschaft viel weniger stabil ist als oft angenommen. Zu vermuten ist, dass die zunehmende Betonung der Rankings und Impact Faktoren die Selektion von neuen Varianten determinieren wird.

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Stelmakh, Ivan, Nihar B. Shah, and Aarti Singh. "Catch Me if I Can: Detecting Strategic Behaviour in Peer Assessment." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 35, no. 6 (May 18, 2021): 4794–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i6.16611.

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We consider the issue of strategic behaviour in various peer-assessment tasks, including peer grading of exams or homeworks and peer review in hiring or promotions. When a peer-assessment task is competitive (e.g., when students are graded on a curve), agents may be incentivized to misreport evaluations in order to improve their own final standing. Our focus is on designing methods for detection of such manipulations. Specifically, we consider a setting in which agents evaluate a subset of their peers and output rankings that are later aggregated to form a final ordering. In this paper, we investigate a statistical framework for this problem and design a principled test for detecting strategic behaviour. We prove that our test has strong false alarm guarantees and evaluate its detection ability in practical settings. For this, we design and conduct an experiment that elicits strategic behaviour from subjects and release a dataset of patterns of strategic behaviour that may be of independent interest. We use this data to run a series of real and semi-synthetic evaluations that reveal a strong detection power of our test.

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Kumar, Amit, Kuldeep Singh, and Anil Kumar Siwach. "NIRF India Rankings 2020 Analyzing the Ranking Parameters and Score of Top 100 Universities." DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology 41, no. 5 (August 26, 2021): 385–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.41.5.16452.

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National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was launched on 29 September 2015 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India to rank the academic & research institutions across the country. The NIRF E-release of India Ranking 2020 was held on 11th June 2020. The present study analyses the top 100 Universities in terms of visualisation of data, the relationship of ranking with the parameters, and the relations among these parameters. Results of the study indicate that the Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR) score for all the universities was almost similar while Research and Professional Practice (RP) score had a considerable variation and played a significant role in ranking by having a positive linear correlation with the total score with the value of R2= 0.746. RP also has a strong correlation with the Peer Perception (PR) of the university. The average library expenditure of top-10 universities was 9.45 crore per annum. It was also found that library expenditure has a positive correlation with RP and the universities with higher research productivity also have a more outstanding quality of publication in terms of citations.

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Hojnik, Janja. "What shall I compare thee to? Legal journals, impact, citation and peer rankings." Legal Studies 41, no. 2 (January 26, 2021): 252–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lst.2020.43.

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AbstractThe pressure to distinguish high quality from lower quality law journals is intensifying. To contribute to this debate, citation-based and peer review-based ranking of law journals are paralleled in the paper, using qualitative and quantitative analysis. It is found that all law journals that are considered as journals of the highest quality by legal experts are also ranked highly in Web of Science (WoS) and that 40% of the law journals categorised as ‘internationally leading’ by the peers are not listed in WoS. This paper explores what the editors of some of the internationally leading law journals that are not listed in the WoS think about applying to be listed in it. The paper offers data to support the contention that legal scholarship is characterised by regionalism in academic publishing and citation patterns. It is submitted that there is no perfect indicator of quality, and that no evaluation system will ever convince every legal scholar in the world of its value. WoS could be adopted as a rigorous and internationally recognised index for law journals only if it were aligned more closely with the Leiden Manifesto.

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Blanchett, David M. "Gaming the System: The Impact of Morningstar Category Changes on Peer Rankings." Journal of Investing 20, no. 1 (February 28, 2011): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3905/joi.2011.20.1.033.

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Wilkins, Stephen, and Jeroen Huisman. "Stakeholder perspectives on citation and peer-based rankings of higher education journals." Tertiary Education and Management 21, no. 1 (December 13, 2014): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2014.987313.

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Abramo, Giovanni, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo, and Flavia Di Costa. "National research assessment exercises: a comparison of peer review and bibliometrics rankings." Scientometrics 89, no. 3 (July 23, 2011): 929–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0459-x.

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Pillsworth, Elizabeth G. "Mate preferences among the Shuar of Ecuador: trait rankings and peer evaluations." Evolution and Human Behavior 29, no. 4 (July 2008): 256–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.01.005.

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Marine-Roig, Estela. "Measuring Online Destination Image, Satisfaction, and Loyalty: Evidence from Barcelona Districts." Tourism and Hospitality 2, no. 1 (January 14, 2021): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp2010004.

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The relationships between destination image and tourist satisfaction and loyalty have been studied extensively through surveys. This study aims to measure these constructs through big data analytics by going one step further in a line of research undertaken 8 years ago. The data source is content generated by travelers and shared on social media regarding the 10 districts of the city of Barcelona (Catalonia): more than 750,000 online travel reviews (OTRs) hosted on the Airbnb platform. This study also explores a relationship demonstrated by numerous researchers through surveys: the impact of destination image on tourist loyalty through satisfaction. However, the results are not satisfactory due to the great weight of the lodging price variable that unbalances the relationship. For example, the first district in the ranking of cognitive image categories is also the first in the ranking of average scores and of positive feelings and moods. However, the last two districts in the ranking of cognitive categories are the first in the rankings of satisfaction, positive recommendations, and cheaper prices. Additionally, the findings show that the location of the accommodation significantly determines the theme of the OTR narrative. Moreover, the results confirm previous studies on the exaggerated positivity of peer-to-peer accommodation scores: only 0.92% of 15,625 rated properties had negative overall scores.

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PASSONNEAU, REBECCA J. "Formal and functional assessment of the pyramid method for summary content evaluation." Natural Language Engineering 16, no. 2 (April 6, 2009): 107–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1351324909005051.

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AbstractPyramid annotation makes it possible to evaluate quantitatively and qualitatively the content of machine-generated (or human) summaries. Evaluation methods must prove themselves against the same measuring stick – evaluation – as other research methods. First, a formal assessment of pyramid data from the 2003 Document Understanding Conference (DUC) is presented; this addresses whether the form of annotation is reliable and whether score results are consistent across annotators. A combination of interannotator reliability measures of the two manual annotation phases (pyramid creation and annotation of system peer summaries against pyramid models), and significance tests of the similarity of system scores from distinct annotations, produces highly reliable results. The most rigorous test consists of a comparison of peer system rankings produced from two independent sets of pyramid and peer annotations, which produce essentially the same rankings. Three years of DUC data (2003, 2005, 2006) are used to assess the reliability of the method across distinct evaluation settings: distinct systems, document sets, summary lengths, and numbers of model summaries. This functional assessment addresses the method's ability to discriminate systems across years. Results indicate that the statistical power of the method is more than sufficient to identify statistically significant differences among systems, and that the statistical power varies little across the 3 years.

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Luo, Junwen, Thomas Feliciani, Martin Reinhart, Judith Hartstein, Vineeth Das, Olalere Alabi, and Kalpana Shankar. "Analyzing sentiments in peer review reports: Evidence from two science funding agencies." Quantitative Science Studies 2, no. 4 (2021): 1271–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00156.

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Abstract Using a novel combination of methods and data sets from two national funding agency contexts, this study explores whether review sentiment can be used as a reliable proxy for understanding peer reviewer opinions. We measure reviewer opinions via their review sentiments on both specific review subjects and proposals’ overall funding worthiness with three different methods: manual content analysis and two dictionary-based sentiment analysis algorithms (TextBlob and VADER). The reliability of review sentiment to detect reviewer opinions is addressed by its correlation with review scores and proposals’ rankings and funding decisions. We find in our samples that review sentiments correlate with review scores or rankings positively, and the correlation is stronger for manually coded than for algorithmic results; manual and algorithmic results are overall correlated across different funding programs, review sections, languages, and agencies, but the correlations are not strong; and manually coded review sentiments can quite accurately predict whether proposals are funded, whereas the two algorithms predict funding success with moderate accuracy. The results suggest that manual analysis of review sentiments can provide a reliable proxy of grant reviewer opinions, whereas the two SA algorithms can be useful only in some specific situations.

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Feinstein, Max M., Joshua D. Niforatos, Lauretta Mosteller, David Chelnick, Syed Raza, and Todd Otteson. "Association of Doximity Ranking and Residency Program Characteristics Across 16 Specialty Training Programs." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 11, no. 5 (October 1, 2019): 580–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-19-00336.1.

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ABSTRACT Background Residency program prestige is an important variable medical students consider when creating their rank list. Doximity Residency Navigator is a ranking system that previous reports have shown significantly influences medical student application decisions. Doximity's use of peer nomination as a central component of its methodology for determining program rank has drawn criticism for its lack of objectivity. Doximity has not published information regarding how peer nomination and more objective measures are statistically weighted in reputation calculation. Objective This study assesses whether a strong negative correlation exists between residency program size and Doximity ranking. Methods A cross-sectional study of Doximity residency rankings from the 2018–2019 academic year was conducted. Data extracted from Doximity included program rank, size, and age. Data were additionally collected from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, funding in 2018 and the US News & World Report Best Medical Schools 2019–2020. A multivariable linear regression model was used that included Doximity ranking as the outcome variable and residency program size as the predictor variable with adjustment for the aforementioned variables. Results Sixteen of the 28 specialties on Doximity were included in the analysis, representing 3388 unique residency programs. After adjustment for covariates, residency program size was a significant predictor of Doximity ranking (β = -1.84; 95% CI -2.01 to -1.66, P < .001). Conclusions These findings support the critique that the Doximity reputation ranking system may favor larger residency programs. More transparency for Doximity reputation ranking algorithm is warranted.

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Moffat, Jack, Charlotte Copas, Kate Wood, and J. David Spafford. "Asynchronous Delivery of a 400 Level, Partially Peer-Graded, Oral Presentation and Discussion Course in Systems Neuroscience for 60 Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Brain Sciences 11, no. 6 (May 25, 2021): 693. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11060693.

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A 400-level undergraduate oral presentation and discussion course in Systems Neuroscience was delivered asynchronously online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Enrolled students banked their narrated oral presentations in video format online then engaged in peer evaluation in virtual classrooms through the course website. Student delivered their oral presentation and responded to peer questions at their leisure and convenience, without the stress and anxiety associated with a “live” performance delivery in front of their peers. A remote and asynchronously delivered course facilitated much more peer contact than “live” versions of the course, which included a total of 62 uploaded presentations, 301 video responses uploaded to 1985 questions posed by peers, a total of 1159 feedback questionnaires submitted, 1066 rankings submitted of viewed oral presentations, and 1091 scores submitted evaluating the quality of questions posed by reviewers of oral presentations. A major drawback in the remote, asynchronous deliver was the enormity of peer engagement through the course website portal, which was mostly blind to the instructor because of the inability to effectively cross-index data linked between the student entries in the LEARN course website and the uploaded videos stored within BONGO Video Assignment tool. Nonetheless, a consistent engagement of students, and the positive feedback from enrolled students, indicate that a future version of this oral/written discussion course will be delivered, in part, remotely and asynchronously, even without a mandated delivery of the course by a remote and asynchronous method due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in 2020–2021.

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Mondal, Debdas, Anil Singh, and Debal C. Kar. "Ranking of Universities: A Study for Last Four Years of Top 25 Indian Universities." Indian Journal of Information Sources and Services 11, no. 2 (November 5, 2021): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/ijiss-2021.11.2.2959.

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National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a system adopted by the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India (formerly referred to as Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)), so as to rank all institutions. However, all things considered the NIRF results from a separate perspective this complete exercise has laid the very foundations of data-driven education and e-governance. The NIRF Ranking System is predicated on five parameters i) TLR, ii) RP, iii) GO, iv) OI and v) PR a stress on adopting an ERP framework to make sure a gentle real-time flow of the multifaceted datasets from institutions could have helped the cause during a much remarkable manner. This study is meant to analyzing the contributions made by the highest 25 Universities as ranked by NIRF within the aspects of various sub-parameters score under Research and Professional Practices key parameter. This article analyses data on three years (2019, 2020 & 2021 of India Rankings to assess its impact on performance of Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI), Graduation Outcomes (GO), Peer Perception (PR) parameters and their sub-parameters of top 25 universities are discussed. The analysis of knowledge on four years of India Rankings, i.e. 2018 to 2021 on various performance sub-parameters of top 25 universities provides a stimulating rank and score reveal that participating institutions are improving every year and getting improved scores. The HEIs are also making tremendous efforts to enhance their performance on various parameters or sub-parameters identified by the NIRF for the ranking of universities.

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Aurand, Timothy W., and Sally A. Wakefield. "Meeting AACSB Assessment Requirements through Peer Evaluations and Rankings in a Capstone Marketing Class." Marketing Education Review 16, no. 1 (March 2006): 41–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10528008.2006.11488936.

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Mihus, Iryna. "USE OF SCIENTIFIC PROFILES TO PRESENT THE RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF UNIVERSITIES." ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT REVIEW, no. 3 (October 1, 2020): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.36690/2674-5208-2020-3-89.

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The article substantiates that the main problem of modern universities is the search for effective methods and tools to present the results of their activities in the Internet space in order to attract more applicants and, in turn, increase the position in the rankings. The study found that an equally important component of the vast majority of rankings are research results, which are calculated as the number of scientific articles published in journals indexed in Scopus / Web of Science, as well as the h-index. A study of the positions of Ukrainian universities in international rankings showed that, despite significant advances in science, they can not get into such rankings. The study found that one of the reasons for this situation is the low level of transparency of both the research conducted at universities and the results of such research. To solve this problem, it is proposed to use scientific profiles of university staff, which contribute to the dissemination of information about scientific achievements, as they contain general information about authors that can be used for grants, participation in conferences, peer review, international rankings and others. The aim of the article is to manage the information reflected in the scientific profiles of researchers to increase the position of universities in international rankings using the results of its comparison with the information used to compile these rankings. The research methodology includes: methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, method of comparing results. It is established that the main scientific profiles that universities can use to publish research results are: Author ID in Scopus, ResearcherID, ORCID, Google Scholar. Thus, the study found that the international rankings of universities, in addition to the information posted on their websites, also use the information contained in the scientific profiles of employees of these institutions. The lack of completed profiles of scientists leads to a decrease in the position of universities in international and domestic rankings.

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Shaari, Mariam Felani, Sabarinah Sh. Ahmad, Izaham Shah Ismail, and Yazid Zaiki. "Preschool Physical Environment Design Quality: Addressing Malaysia’s PISA Rankings." Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies 5, no. 16 (July 14, 2020): 45–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajebs.v5i16.369.

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PISA assessments revealed cognitive abilities of Malaysian children remained unsatisfactory. Poor cognitive school readiness (SR) among preschoolers, contributing to inadequate cognitive development, is a factor. Excellent preschool physical environments (PPE) could potentially improve childhood cognitive development by boosting cognitive SR. This study aims to highlight the significance of PPE design quality on children’s cognitive SR in Malaysia. A cohort study comprising 16 Ministry of Education (MOE) preschools with 336 children was done. PPE design quality showed significant positive association with cognitive SR. Conclusively, good PPE design should contribute to improved PISA ranking by ensuring better cognitive development of Malaysian preschoolers.Keywords: Preschool Physical Environment; Cognitive School Readiness; Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development; PISA.eISSN: 2514-751X © 2020 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajebs.v5i16.369

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Edmunds, Alan, and Carolyn R. Yewchuk. "Indicators of Leadership in Gifted Grade Twelve Students." Journal of Secondary Gifted Education 7, no. 2 (February 1996): 345–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1932202x9600700202.

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This study investigated the nature of the relationships among four commonly used indicators of leadership (skills, past behavior, actual behavior, and rankings), as well as IQ and gender differences for the same indicators. The subjects were 90 academically gifted 12th grade students evenly distributed by gender. The results indicated significant positive relationships among actual leadership, past leadership, and leadership skills; between peer and teacher rankings; and between IQ and leadership skills. No evidence was found to substantiate Hollingworth's (1939) claim for an optimal IQ spread between leaders and followers. Males scored significantly higher than females on past leadership behavior and task orientation leadership style. The findings indicate a need for further investigation and consolidation of the components that constitute leadership in order to enhance identification of leadership potential and evaluation of leadership curricula.

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Standifird, Stephen S. "Reputation Among Peer Academic Institutions: An Investigation of the US News and World Report's Rankings." Corporate Reputation Review 8, no. 3 (October 2005): 233–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.crr.1540252.

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Lurie, Stephen J., David R. Lambert, Anne C. Nofziger, Ronald M. Epstein, and Tana A. Grady-Weliky. "Relationship Between Peer Assessment During Medical School, Dean’s Letter Rankings, and Ratings by Internship Directors." Journal of General Internal Medicine 22, no. 1 (January 2007): 13–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0117-4.

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Gruber, Thorsten. "Academic sell-out: How an obsession with metrics and rankings is damaging academia." Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, no. 154 (2016): 161–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmsdn1654161g.

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Increasingly, academics have to demonstrate that their research has academic impact. Universities normally use journal rankings and journal impact factors to assess the research impact of individual academics. More recently, citation counts for individual articles and the h-index have also been used to measure the academic impact of academics. There are, however, several serious problems with relying on journal rankings, journal impact factors and citation counts. For example, articles without any impact may be published in highly ranked journals or journals with high impact factor, whereas articles with high impact could be published in lower ranked journals or journals with low impact factor. Citation counts can also be easily gamed and manipulated and the h-index disadvantages early career academics. This paper discusses these and several other problems and suggests alternatives such as post-publication peer review and open-access journals.

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Tausch, Arno. "Die Buchpublikationen der Nobelpreis-Ökonomen und die führenden Buchverlage der Disziplin. Eine bibliometrische Analyse." Bibliotheksdienst 51, no. 3-4 (March 1, 2017): 339–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bd-2017-0032.

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Zusammenfassung Rezente Beiträge in der wachsenden Disziplin der Szientometrie und Bibliometrie haben begonnen, nicht nur den „Impact“ der Veröffentlichungen in Fachzeitschriften, sondern auch von Büchern zu studieren. Diese Methode kann auf einzelne Autoren oder sogar auf den „Impact“ eines gesamten Verlags-Unternehmens angewendet werden. In unserem Aufsatz analysieren wir die Publikationsmuster der Nobelpreisträger für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 1994–2014. Mehr als 50% der besten und zweithäufigsten global vertretenen Buchpublikationen dieser Autorinnen und Autoren geschahen bei nur 8 Verlagen, die alle durch ihre strenge Peer-Review bekannt sind. Wir diskutieren dann die bisherigen Rankings der Verlage in der Literatur, und präsentieren dann unseren eigenen multivariaten Versuch, der folgende Dimensionen kombiniert: – Die Veröffentlichung der Ergebnisse der Wissenschaft, – Zitate und Ranking in der akademischen Gemeinschaft, – Marktdurchdringung in zwei typischen westlichen Industrieländern, – Die Beachtung der veröffentlichten Bücher durch internationale Entscheidungsträger, – Marktdurchdringung in Entwicklungsländern, – Beachtung in den internationalen Medien. Die 6 Indikatoren für die 57 Unternehmen mit vollständigen Daten werden präsentiert und die Ergebnisse vorgestellt.

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Kataoka, Yuki, Yan Luo, Anna Chaimani, Akira Onishi, Miho Kimachi, Yasushi Tsujimoto, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Tianjing Li, Andrea Cipriani, and Toshi A. Furukawa. "Cumulative network-meta-analyses, practice guidelines and actual prescriptions of drug treatments for postmenopausal osteoporosis: a study protocol for cumulative network meta-analyses and meta-epidemiological study." BMJ Open 8, no. 12 (December 2018): e023218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023218.

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IntroductionCumulative network meta-analysis (NMA) is a method to provide a global comparison of multiple treatments with real-time update to evidence users. Several studies investigated the ranking of cumulative NMA and the recommendations of practice guidelines. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has evaluated the cumulative NMA ranking and prescription patterns. Here, we present a protocol for a meta-epidemiological investigation to compare the results of cumulative NMA with the recommendations in postmenopausal osteoporosis practice guidelines and with the actual prescriptions.Method and analysisWe will use the data of primary trials from the upcoming postmenopausal osteoporosis clinical practice guideline of the Endocrine Society. We will conduct cumulative NMA using all eligible trials and generate hierarchy of treatment rankings by using the surface under the cumulative ranking curve. We will search practice guidelines in relevant society websites. Two review authors will extract the practice recommendations. We will use data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, a US representative sample of the non-institutionalised population, to determine the prescription patterns.Ethics and disseminationBecause all data will be retrieved from public databases, institutional review board approval is not required. We will publish our findings in a peer-reviewed journal and present key findings at conferences.Trial registration numberUMIN000031894: Pre-results.

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devi, R. P. Sree. "Implementation of Quality Education and Rankings of Minority Institutions by Using Peer Weight through DEA Approach." International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology 40, no. 2 (December 25, 2016): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.14445/22315373/ijmtt-v40p515.

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Li, Shannon, Anne Honey, Francesca Coniglio, and Peter Schaecken. "Mental Health Peer Worker Perspectives on Resources Developed from Lived Experience Research Findings: A Delphi Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 7 (March 24, 2022): 3881. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073881.

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Lived experience research is potentially useful for assisting the recovery journeys of people experiencing mental health challenges, when presented in user-friendly formats. Consumer peer workers are ideally placed to introduce such resources to the people they work with. This study sought to explore the perspectives of expert consumer peer workers on the potential use of lived experience research resources in peer work practice. In particular: (1) what research topics would be most useful; and (2) what considerations are important for developing user-friendly and useful resources using findings from this research. A hybrid Delphi study was conducted. Eighteen expert peer workers participated in online group interviews, which included a semi-structured discussion and modified nominal group technique. These were followed by two rounds of surveys, which focused on prioritising the identified topics. Participants identified 47 topics suitable for lived experience research resources, 42 of which reached consensus as useful for consumers. A priority list of topics for use in peer work was identified through examination and grouping of peer worker rankings of the usefulness of resources for their work with consumers. The highest priority topics were as follows: developing and maintaining social networks; how peer workers can support consumers in their recovery journey; having choice with medications and participating in the decision-making process; and knowing your rights and responsibilities. Participants noted, however, that the usefulness of each topic ultimately depended on individual consumer’s needs. They highlighted that a variety of formats and presentation were required to reach diverse consumer groups.

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Hazelkorn, Ellen, and Lu Liu. "Developing Meaningful Higher Education Evaluation Systems: Putting China in Context." International Journal of Chinese Education 7, no. 2 (January 18, 2018): 207–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22125868-12340098.

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AbstractThis paper firstly reviews how issues of accountability and transparency have become some of the key drivers of government policy over recent years. It finds that the drive for greater higher education accountability and transparency has encouraged the growth of an international evaluation industry. It secondly discusses issues related to different types of policy and evaluation instruments across Europe, as well as the importance of rankings. It finds that traditional approaches have relied on collegiality, expert judgment, and peer review, and there is a growing focus on indicator-led systems in the belief that indicators are value-free and statistically robust so that leads to rankings have a significant part of development. The paper finally discusses and compares trends and developments of accountability and transparency in China’s higher education. It finds that China is now pursuing “World-class Universities” (WCUs) establishment and China’s experience reflect the challenges and tensions around quality and accountability.

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Singh, Mahakdeep, Kanwarpreet Singh, and Amanpreet Singh Sethi. "Analytical hierarchy process and TOPSIS for selecting best parameters of green manufacturing." Measuring Business Excellence 24, no. 3 (June 4, 2020): 345–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mbe-08-2019-0076.

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Purpose Competition and globalization in the today’s scenario have posed many pressures on all manufacturing enterprises either it be small or medium scale organizations but at different levels. The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the usage of comparison for rankings between analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach and find out best parameters, which is a multi-decision-making method for quantifying the implementation of green manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach In this investigation, eight aspects, for instance, top management commitment and support, organizational practices, peer government pressure, peer social pressure, customer’s attributes, green supply chain management, government support and adoption of new/ supportive technologies have been identified to examine priority weights by the use of AHP. A comparative methodology is used between AHP and TOPSIS rankings and further identifying the success possibility of green manufacturing using AHP technique. Findings Green supply chain management, customer’s attributes and organizational practices have been ranked at first three places, respectively, while adoption of new/ supportive technologies, top management commitment and support have been ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, according to AHP and TOPSIS techniques, which declares that results of the study are validated by two different techniques. The important factors discussed in this research can assist the different organizations to concentrate on imperative sections and assigning obligatory resources for assuring successful green manufacturing execution in various small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs). Originality/value The variables identified for the research are suitable to SMEs.

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Abramo, Giovanni, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo, and Fulvio Viel. "Peer review research assessment: a sensitivity analysis of performance rankings to the share of research product evaluated." Scientometrics 85, no. 3 (May 18, 2010): 705–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0238-0.

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Thomas, P. R., and D. S. Watkins. "Institutional research rankings via bibliometric analysis and direct peer review: A comparative case study with policy implications." Scientometrics 41, no. 3 (March 1998): 335–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02459050.

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Reed, Vicki A., and Susan Trumbo. "The Relative Importance of Selected Communication Skills for Positive Peer Relations: American Adolescents’ Opinions." Communication Disorders Quarterly 41, no. 3 (February 3, 2019): 135–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1525740118819684.

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Typically developing, American adolescents in Grade 10 ( n = 38) ranked the relative importance of 14 communication skills in their friends’ communication with them. The skills were considered those associated with figurative language (e.g., appropriate slang use), empathy (e.g., vocal tone comprehension), or discourse management (e.g., appropriate topic selection). Five skills emerged as more important and were primarily considered to be empathy-related communication skills. Four skills, representing a mix of figurative language and discourse management skills, were ranked as lower in importance. The remaining five skills were of intermediate or variable importance and a mix of discourse management and empathy-related communication skills. Results were similar to those of previous investigations with Australian adolescents. Adolescents’ gender did not result in different rankings. Knowing what adolescents opine to be more and less important communication skills for positive peer relationships can help speech-language pathologists decide on intervention objectives to improve adolescents’ peer relationships.

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Jones, D. Yvonne. "How Much Do the “Best” Colleges Spend on Libraries? Using College Rankings to Provide Library Financial Benchmarks." College & Research Libraries 68, no. 4 (July 1, 2007): 343–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.68.4.343.

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Recent ACRL guidelines1 and standards2 urge academic librarians to compare selected input and output measures with peer institutions for assessment. This paper provides an example of such a comparison, using a freely available statistical tool from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).3 Applying the NCES data tool to liberal arts colleges chosen by U.S. News and World Report (USN&WR)4 as the “Best Liberal Arts Colleges” provides one strategy for choosing financial benchmarks to target, as well as staffing and output measures for comparison. Using liberal arts colleges ranked in the top third by USN&WR, about $2,000/FTE would be the 2004 reported amount that the “best” colleges spent on library resources.

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Henry, Felicity Mobbs, Vicki A. Reed, and Lindy L. McAllister. "Adolescents’ Perceptions of the Relative Importance of Selected Communication Skills in Their Positive Peer Relationships." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 26, no. 3 (July 1995): 263–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461.2603.263.

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This study investigated the opinions of tenth grade adolescents with normal achievement concerning the relative importance of 14 communication skills in their positive peer relationships and explored whether or not the adolescents’ gender influenced their opinions about the importance of these skills. Results suggested that two skills were of relatively high importance, four skills were of relatively low importance, and the remaining eight skills were of intermediate or variable importance. Communication skills closely associated with characteristics of empathy and primarily addressee-focused were ranked as either relatively high or intermediate/variable in importance. Those skills related to figurative and metalinguistic language and considered primarily speaker-focused were ranked as relatively low in importance. Communication skills related to discourse management were ranked as being either relatively intermediate/variable or low in importance. No significant differences were found between the overall rankings of the male and female adolescents. Discussion of the findings relates the results to suggestions in the literature concerning communication skills thought to be important for successful adolescent peer relationships, raises directions for further research, and presents implications for intervention.

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Kyratzis, Amy. "Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 20, no. 4 (December 1, 2010): 557–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.20.4.04kyr.

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The current English-only educational climate in California presents children with polarizing discourses about national belonging (Bailey 2007). This study uses language socialization theory (e.g., Garret and Baquedano-López 2002) and Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of “heteroglossia” to examine how members of a peer group of linguistic minority children attending a bilingual Spanish-English preschool in California used bilingual practices among themselves to respond to such polarizing discourses and organize their local peer group social order. The peer group was followed over several months during free play in their preschool classroom using methods of ethnography and talk-in-interaction. An extended episode of birthday play was examined. The children use code-switching as a resource to negotiate locally shifting “frames” (Goffman 1974) and participation frameworks (C. Goodwin 2007; M.H. Goodwin 1990a; 2006) during their play interaction. Through their language practices, group members reflexively portray the tension between their languages (Bakhtin 1981), and inscribe some domain associations (Garrett 2005; Paugh 2005; Schiefflin 2003) for English and Spanish (e.g., using English for references to aspects of birthday parties relevant to U.S. consumer culture; Spanish for topics of food and family). These practices reproduce hierarchical and gendered rankings of the languages inscribed in monolingual discourses of the dominant U.S. society. However, the children also challenge regimented patterns, through using, at moments, unmarked forms of code-switching, often within single utterances. These hybrid utterances blur boundaries across frames and groups of players, affirming “linguistic and cultural hybridity” (Haney 2003: 164) within the peer group.

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Setiawan, Dedi, Hendra Dani Saputra, Muslim Muslim, and R. Chandra. "Penilaian Kinerja Guru Produktif Dalam Melaksanakan Standar Kompetensi Guru." INVOTEK: Jurnal Inovasi Vokasional dan Teknologi 20, no. 1 (February 4, 2020): 114–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/invotek.v20i1.361.

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Abstract— This study aims to assess teachers in education. This type of research is combination research (quantitative and qualitative). Research subjects were 55 people. The research data was obtained through questionnaires, peers, interviews, and data from the analysis using a percentage formula. The results of the study found that pedagogic competence: (1) For the questionnaire the average total score was 4.2. (2) For peer rankings average total score of 4.0, with the achievement level of respondents 80% remaining in the "good" category, (3) Average productivity score of 4.0, with an achievement level of respondents 80% in the category " good ", and (4) For the results of interviews that discuss the principal, curriculum curriculum and 7 heads of productive majors, with the conclusion of the" good "category. While for the competence of the soul is obtained (1) For the questionnaire the total score is 4.3. (2) For the rank of peers the average total score is 4.2, with the achievement level of respondents 84% in the "good" category, (3) Average productivity score 4.1, with 82% respondents' achievement in the category " good ", and (4) For the results of interviews that discuss the principal, curriculum curriculum and 7 heads of productive departments with the" good "category.

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Restrepo, Silvia, Enrique ter Horst, Juan Diego Zambrano, Laura H. Gunn, German Molina, and Carlos Andres Salazar. "Hierarchical Bayesian classification methods to identify topics by journal quartile with an application in biological sciences." Education for Information 38, no. 1 (March 11, 2022): 93–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/efi-211546.

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This manuscript builds on a novel, automatic, freely-available Bayesian approach to extract information in abstracts and titles to classify research topics by quartile. This approach is demonstrated for all N= 149,129 ISI-indexed publications in biological sciences journals during 2017. A Bayesian multinomial inverse regression approach is used to extract rankings of topics without the need of a pre-defined dictionary. Bigrams are used for extraction of research topics across manuscripts, and rankings of research topics are constructed by quartile. Worldwide and local results (e.g., comparison between two peer/aspirational research institutions in Colombia) are provided, and differences are explored both at the global and local levels. Some topics persist across quartiles, while the relevance of others is quartile-specific. Challenges in sustainable development appear as more prevalent in top quartile journals across institutions, while the two Colombian institutions favour plant and microorganism research. This approach can reduce information inequities, by allowing young/incipient researchers in biological sciences, especially within lower income countries or universities with limited resources, to freely assess the state of the literature and the relative likelihood of publication in higher impact journals by research topic. This can also serve institutions of higher education to identify missing research topics and areas of competitive advantage.

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Shaari, Mariam Felani, Sabarinah Sheikh Ahmad, Izaham Shah Ismail, and Yazid Zaiki. "Addressing Recent PISA Rankings: The potential role of preschool physical environment design quality in Malaysia." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 5, no. 13 (March 23, 2020): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2057.

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Recent PISA assessments revealed unsatisfactory cognitive abilities among Malaysian children. Poor cognitive development, stemming from inadequate preschool cognitive school readiness (SR), is an underlying factor. Well-designed preschool physical environments (PPE) could potentially enhance cognitive SR and subsequently improve childhood cognitive development. This study aims to highlight the importance of PPE design quality on children’s cognitive SR in Malaysia. A cohort study involving 336 children at 16 Ministry of Education (MOE) preschools was conducted. PPE design quality demonstrated a significant positive association with cognitive SR. Conclusively, better PPE design is hoped to improve cognitive development by ensuring cognitive SR among Malaysian preschoolers.Keywords: Preschool Physical Environment; Cognitive School Readiness; Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development; PISAeISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2057

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Haryadi, Haryadi, Citra Amalia, Doddy Teguh Yuwono, Fitri Amalia Sholehah, and Santika Santika. "SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN SELEKSI BANTUAN DANA HIBAH PENELITIAN DENGAN METODE ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCE (ANP)." Jurnal Informatika dan Rekayasa Elektronik 4, no. 1 (April 19, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.36595/jire.v4i1.293.

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At the end of 2019, the ranking for research was issued by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education at that time, UM Palangkaraya moved up the rankings from the fostered cluster to MADYA. This encourages the institution to further improve the quality of research quality from lecturers. One of them is by providing Penelitian Penelitian Kompetitif Dosen Interna (PKDI). For this reason, research programs carried out in tertiary institutions are required to produce high quality and useful products. The manifestation of this openness is that program proposals received by LP2M will be reviewed by the assessment team (peer review) and then declared accepted or rejected for funding. However, the current assessment process is still carried out manually, namely by looking at certain criteria only, regardless of other assessment criteria. Of course, the manual assessment process is very likely to make mistakes. Therefore, a Web-based Decision Support System (DSS) was built using the Analytic Network Process (ANP) method. Based on the results of the research, it can be seen that the developed SPK can make it easier to assess the feasibility of proposing proposals at UM-Palangkaraya effectively and objectively in obtaining Grants based on the weights and predetermined criteria.

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Bell, Nathaniel, Ana Lòpez-De Fede, Bo Cai, and John M. Brooks. "Reliability of the American Community Survey Estimates of Risk-Adjusted Readmission Rankings for Hospitals Before and After Peer Group Stratification." JAMA Network Open 2, no. 10 (October 9, 2019): e1912727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.12727.

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Gläser, Jochen. "Why are the Most Influential Books in Australian Sociology not Necessarily the Most Highly Cited Ones?" Journal of Sociology 40, no. 3 (September 2004): 261–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783304046370.

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The vote by TASA members on the ‘Most Influential Book in Australian Sociology’ (MIBAS) provides an opportunity to compare quantitative indicators based on citations with the peer review represented by the MIBAS votes. While it is generally agreed that citations are only a partial indicator of such a complex phenomenon as quality, citations are regarded as a reflection of a publication’s, author’s or research group’s ‘impact’ or influence. This assumption is explored by applying several interpretations and operationalizations of the concept of ‘influence’, by discussing their validity, and by comparing the respective citation rankings to the MIBAS poll. The major lessons of the comparison are that citation-based indicators should not be applied in diachronic comparisons, for evaluating publications on nationally specific topics, or in fields in which books are an important part of the research output.

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