A Guide to the Methodology of the National Research Council Assessment of the Doctorate Programs
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Table 5-2a Sample First Quartile Ranking Calculation
Institution Name: xxx
Program Name: yyy
Col 1
Col 2
Description
Publications per Allocated Faculty
Cites per Publication
Percent of Faculty with Grants
Variable
V1
V2
V3
Col 3
Program
Value*
1.074
1.171
25.5%
Col 4
Col 5
Col 6
Standardized
Program Value
with Variation+
Combined
Coefficient@
Product Col
4 x Col 5
1.784
-0.269
-0.596
0.130
0.294
0.085
0.231
-0.079
-0.051
Percent Faculty Interdisciplinary
V4
5.9%
-0.581
n.s. #
n.c. #
Percent Non-Asian Minority Faculty
V5
7.7%
0.444
n.s. #
n.c. #
Percent Female Faculty
Awards per allocated faculty
Average GRE-Q
Percent 1st yr. students w/ full support
V6
V7
V8
V9
12.5%
0
746
100%
-0.511
-0.290
-0.286
1.432
n.s. #
n.c. #
0.038
0.091
0.044
-0.011
-0.026
0.064
Percent 1st yr students with portable fellowships
V10
0.0%
-0.489
0.023
-0.011
0.062
0.561
n.s. #
n.c. #
-0.029
-0.016
#
n.c. #
0.152
-0.058
#
n.c. #
Percent Non-Asian Minority Students
Percent Female Students
Percent International Students
Average PhDs 2002 to 2006
V11
V12
10.0%
44.4%
V13
V14
53.3%
5.4
-0.018
-0.379
n.s.
n.s.
Percent Completing within 6 years
Time to Degree Full and Part Time
Percent students in Academic Positions
V15
V16
V17
27.6%
5.67
11.1%
-0.574
0.017
-1.365
-0.026
0.063
0.000
-0.086
Student Work Space
V18
1
1.000
n.s. #
n.c. #
Health Insurance
Number of student activities offered
V19
V20
1
17
1.000
-0.427
n.s. #
n.c. #
0.025
-0.011
Average Rating (total of column 6)
Program Ranking for this rating = 56
-0.054
*Col 3 is based on data submitted by the program or calculated from these data.
+Col 4 is standardized value for the set of perturbed program values that produced the 1st quartile ranking.
Standardized values have a mean of 0 and variance of 1.
@
Col 5 is the combined direct and regression-based weights for each variable (see Appendix A).
# n.s. in a cell means the coefficient was not significantly different from 0 at the p=.05 level.
# n.c. means the product was not calculated for these coefficients because the coefficient was not significant at the p=.05 level.
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