U. of Texas Adopts Plan to Publish Performance Data on Professors and Campuses - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views
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help ensure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth
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Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11as 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)
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Among other things, the system will report such factors as research expenditures, publications, teaching evaluations, and external support.
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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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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