Christopher D. Green wrote:
The study in question was "wholly inadequate" not because it involved
student evaluations but because student evaluations are the wrong
observations to make in order to address the question I was on about.
How about the data collected by NSF and reported by the Higher Education
Data Consortium? They consistently show that, if you control for size,
many liberal arts colleges produce Ph. D's at a rate comparable to or
better than the best research one universities. Now many of the faculty
at these schools are researchers as well as teachers but many put
teaching first. Faculty at our college involve students in research
projects even if our main area of scholarship maybe in another area. We
consistently out rank Harvard, in weighted Ph. D. rankings, even though
we don't out score many other liberal arts colleges in the US News
rankings. I think it is clear that how well one teaches research
depends on more things than doing it.
All Institutions: Total, All Disciplines 1992-2001
California Institute of Technology
1
Harvey Mudd College
2
Reed College
3
Swarthmore College
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Carleton College
6
Oberlin College
7
Bryn Mawr College
8
University of Chicago
9
Yale University
10
Grinnell College
11
Princeton University
12
Haverford College
13
Cleveland Institute of Music
14
St. John's College
15
Rice University
16
Pomona College
17
*Kalamazoo College***
*18***
Amherst College
19
Juilliard School, The
20
Williams College
21
Harvard University
22
New England Conservatory of Music
23
Shimer College
24
Stanford University
25
Wesleyan University
26
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University
27
Earlham College
28
Brown University
29
Beloit College
3
Bob Grossman
Kalamazoo College
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