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Postscript on College Rankings Revisited: Description of methods

By Phil Hill. Posted on January 19, 2018

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Given the interest in guest post on College Rankings done by AI, we point out paper with deeper description of algorithms, and we answer some questions.

College Rankings Revisited: What Might an Artificial Intelligence Think?

By Steve Lattanzio. Posted on January 16, 2018

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What if, instead of relying on US & World Report subjective methods, we tried to rely on more object data analysis for college rankings? Here is one exploration of possibilities, using neural networks and the College Scorecard.

College Scorecard: With victories like these, who needs failures?

By Phil Hill. Posted on August 24, 2016

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The Department of Education’s new tool for evaluating colleges is…uh…not so great.

College Scorecard: ED quietly adds in 700 missing colleges

By Phil Hill. Posted on February 6, 2016

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It’s worth giving credit where credit is due, and the US Department of Education (ED) has fixed a problem that Russ Poulin and I pointed out where they had previously left ~700 colleges out of the College Scorecard. When the College Scorecard was announced, Russ noticed a handful of missing schools. When I did the […]

College Scorecard Article Published In Washington Post

By Phil Hill. Posted on October 16, 2015

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I have written several posts looking at the new College Scorecard and its inherent flaws in the data, often starting with observations from Russ Poulin at WCET. Today Susan Svrluga, education reporter at the Washington Post, posted a new article co-written by me and Russ and titled “Hundreds of colleges missing from Obama’s College Scorecard?”. The […]

Forbes Fantasies: Why Hillsdale College is not in the College Scorecard (hint, boring reasons)

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 20, 2015

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Richard Vedder wrote a particularly uninformed article in Forbes on Friday about the Education Department (ED) not including Hillsdale College in the new College Scorecard. Freed from the burden of facts or research, Vedder let loose the dogs of conspiracy [emphasis in original]. The Obama Administration, with much hype, released its College Scorecard recently, designed to […]

College Scorecard Problem Gets Worse: One in three associate’s degree institutions are not included

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 16, 2015

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Late yesterday I posted about the Education Department (ED) new College Scorecard and how it omits a large number of community colleges based on an arbitrary metric. In particular, the Education Department (ED) is using a questionable method of determining whether an institution is degree-granting rather than relying on the IPEDS data source. In a nutshell, […]
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