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Why Academics Cannot Be Reduced to Summary Statistics
The meat and potatoes of evaluating college faculty is research and teaching. In evaluations for hiring, tenure, promotion and so forth, departments want to know a professor's research impact and teaching abilities. Academic units have come to rely on quantifiable metrics to assess research and teaching.
The primary means by which universities measure research impact and teaching excellence rely heavily on flawed metrics. And they are particularly flawed if you are a woman.
From The Washington Post
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