Open AccessTHE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RATINGS OF GRADUATE DEPARTMENTS AND FACULTY PUBLICATION RATES
Author(s) -
Baird Leonard L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1980.tb01224.x
Subject(s) - productivity , psychology , sample (material) , quality (philosophy) , graduate students , medical education , applied psychology , pedagogy , medicine , economics , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , chromatography , macroeconomics
The relationship between reputational ratings of graduate chemistry, history, and psychology departments and their faculties' scholarly productivity was examined using data from a national sample of departments in each field. Six measures of productivity, three for the entire career, and three for the most recent three years, were related to ratings of the “quality” of the faculty, which were obtained by following procedures used by Roose and Andersen (1970). Although some statistically significant relationships were obtained, a close examination of the data indicated that ratings are inadequate assessments of the scholarly contribution of faculty or the “quality” of departments.