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U. of Texas Adopts Plan to Publish Performance Data on Professors and Campuses - Facult... - 2 views

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  • help ensure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      as I attempted to raise during LAK11, intent is critical. If LAK is primarily accountability driven, then more complex outcomes available IF questioning of data is deeper, may be missed (or ignored/buried/not sought)
  • Among other things, the system will report such factors as research expenditures, publications, teaching evaluations, and external support.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      myschool is already developing into such a site. Insightful LAK, with holistic intention, not narow agendas, is preferable. Metrics, data, inclusions and questions need bipartisan support IF education is to be apolitical.
  • That was a swipe at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank supported by Gov. Rick Perry that has advocated a controversial blueprint known as the "Seven Solutions" to higher education
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      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      Perry, potential president? Fascinating 2012 election
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  • It also calls for a review system in which outside experts analyze the performance of individual colleges within the system's universities.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      intent, questions asked, data deemed inclusive, all crucial for LAK outcomes. Enormous potential for misrepresentations exist IF analytics is poorly conceived and managed.
  • Mr. Powell said the database would allow students, parents, legislators, and others to easily examine detailed data about how different campuses and departments performed.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      exact definition of intent of our 2 year old myschool data
  • Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
     
    The plan unveiled on Thursday designates money to create a "dashboard"-an interactive, online database-to give students, parents, and legislators access to detailed measures of departments' and colleges' productivity and efficiency. Data on individual professors will probably also be included, although Dr. Cigarroa stressed that each campus would be able to develop its own system of metrics and the details have not yet been worked out
hansdezwart

NodeXL: Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel - 0 views

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    NodeXL is a template for Excel 2007 and 2010 that lets you enter a network edge list, click a button, and see the network graph, all in the Excel window. You can easily customize the graph's appearance; zoom, scale and pan the graph; dynamically filter vertices and edges; alter the graph's layout; find clusters of related vertices; and calculate a set of graph metrics. Networks can be imported from and exported to a variety of data formats, and built-in connections for getting networks from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and your local email are provided.
hansdezwart

Goodhart's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • hansdezwart on 15 Jan 11
     
    Goodhart's law states that once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role.
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Social Network Analysis - 0 views

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  • Nodes that connect their group to others usually end up with high network metrics. Boundary spanners such as Fernando, Garth, and Heather are more central in the overall network than their immediate neighbors whose connections are only local, within their immediate cluster. You can be a boundary spanner via your bridging connections to other clusters or via your concurrent membership in overlappping groups. Boundary spanners are well-positioned to be innovators, since they have access to ideas and information flowing in other clusters. They are in a position to combine different ideas and knowledge, found in various places, into new products and services.
  • hansdezwart on 21 Jan 11
     
    Social network analysis [SNA] is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other connected information/knowledge entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships. Management consultants use this methodology with their business clients and call it Organizational Network Analysis [ONA].
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