Myths of Measurement and Meritocracy

Why Accountability Metrics in Higher Education Are Unfair and Increase Inequality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvJ. M. Beach

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This book examines the idea of educational accountability in higher education, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make colleges better? What if educational accountability tools don’t actually measure what they’re supposed to? What if accountability data isn’t valid, or worse, what if it’s meaningless? What if administrators don’t know how to use accountability tools or correctly analyze the problematic data these tools produce? What if we can’t measure, let alone accurately assess, what matters most with teaching or student learning. What if students don’t learn much in college? What if higher education was never designed to produce student learning? What if college doesn’t help most students, either personally or economically? What if higher education isn’t meritocratic, actually exacerbates inequality, and makes the lives of disadvantaged students even worse? This book will answer these questions with a wide, interdisciplinary range of the latest scientific research.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-09-15
Mått161 x 228 x 21 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor210
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareLabaree,David
ISBN9781475862249

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ForewordPreface: We Aren’t Measuring What Matters MostIntroduction: Investigating the Myths of Measurement and the Meritocracy of Higher EducationChapter 1: Public Opinion Surveys: From Managing the Herd to Consumer SatisfactionChapter 2: The Premise of Student Evaluation Surveys: Measuring Teacher EffectivenessChapter 3: Pressured to Please: The Negotiated Compromise of Playing School Chapter 4: A Question of Validity: Student Surveys Don’t Measure Teaching or LearningChapter 5: Predictably Irrational: The Cognitive Miser and the Limits of Consumer ChoiceChapter 6: Are Students Capable of Evaluating Teaching or Learning? An Investigation of the “Fox Effect”Chapter 7: Signaling or Human Capital? Credentialism, Degree Inflation, and Socio-Economic InequalityChapter 8: The Myth of Meritocracy: The Cautionary Examples of Ancient China and Modern South KoreaConclusion: Can Schools Become Meritocratic Institutions?PreviewVolume 1: Can We Measure What Matters Most? Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize TeachersReferencesIndexAbout the Author

This book is a companion volume to Beach's previously published Can We Measure What Matters Most? (2021). The two volumes challenge those who support the academic accountability movement's use of quantitative measures to assess teaching and learning. This volume focuses on consumer surveys, which Beach, an expert on teaching and learning, contends reflect popularity more than effectiveness in teaching and learning and are more likely to favor those who want to "play school" with students more interested in credentials than learning…. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.