News or noise? An analysis of U.S. news and world report's ranking scores

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 39-48

  Clarke, Marguerite ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic quality; Error; Rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012850114     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2002.tb00105.x     Document Type: Article

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