Is There a Gap between Students' Preference and University Presidents' Concern over College Ranking Indicators?: A Case Study of "College Navigator in Taiwan"

Autor/inn/en	Hou, Angela Yung-Chi; Morse, Robert; Shao, Yueh-jen E.
Titel	Is There a Gap between Students' Preference and University Presidents' Concern over College Ranking Indicators?: A Case Study of "College Navigator in Taiwan"
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 64 (2012) 6, S.767-787 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-012-9524-5
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Presidents; Search Engines; Computer Uses in Education; Higher Education; Student Attitudes; Preferences; Administrator Attitudes; Evaluation Criteria; Asians; Information Sources; College Choice; Selection Criteria; Educational Quality; International Education; Foreign Students; Comparative Analysis; Case Studies; Program Descriptions; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Suchmaschine; Computernutzung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schülerverhalten; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Information source; Informationsquelle; Studienortwahl; Selection criterion; Auslesekriterium; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Internationale Erziehung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	In order to help students make well-informed choices, reliable college ranking systems with comparable information about higher education institutions worldwide have been welcomed by many students. Because traditional college rankings had many methodological problems, a new type of user-based ranking, called "personalized college ranking" started to develop in many nations in the late 1990s. In 2008, Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), launched a ranking project called "College Navigator in Taiwan" which developed the first Asian student-based college search engine to provide local and international students with transparent information on Taiwan's higher education institutions. The main objective of this paper, therefore, is to compare the rational, strategies and pathways for establishing personalized college rankings. In order to analyze the gap between students' preferences and university presidents' concerns over ranking indicators, HEEACT's "College Navigator in Taiwan" is adopted as a case study at the end of paper. (As Provided).
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