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> "Most universities, surprisingly, have no way to measure their effectiveness, and most don’t try. If you can’t measure effectiveness you can’t fail." I don't
by georgeecollins 9y ago
> "Most universities, surprisingly, have no way to measure their effectiveness, and most don’t try. If you can’t measure effectiveness you can’t fail."
I don't know the facts-- and none are presented in the tweet-- but I do have a friend whose very job is to run studies on the effectiveness of programs at a University. I am sure this person is not alone.
Even if "most" (asserted) universities don't have a way to measure their effectiveness, the fact is that many of the best do and they all tend to benchmark each other. I would be really curious what the author is basing his assertion on because I think it is likely schools research a lot of things (like their effectiveness) but don't release that information publicly for many reasons.
- UncleEntity 9y agoI see billboards and the busses that shuttle people between the different ASU campuses going on about their effectiveness all the time. #1 school for this metric. In the Top 10 for some other metric. Even the small California state school I went to goes on and on about the things they're good at...Environmental stuff and getting grads into the Peace Corp.
- georgeecollins 9y agoRight, and they know a lot about things they may have reasons not to share. Like, what majors are people likely to drop out of, which groups they accept are least likely to finish.