Counting Out The Scholars: The Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education
Language: English
Published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd, Toronto, 2002
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- Title
- Counting Out The Scholars: The Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education
- Author
- Bruneau, William; & Donald C. Savage
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd, Toronto
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1550287117
- ISBN 13
- 9781550287110
- Illustrator
- Gable, Brian (cover cartoon)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- Education / Teaching / Academic Institutions
Canada's universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these institutions, insisting that they operate according to a business model.
The chief tool used to effect this change is the performance indicator, a method of evaluation and ranking well suited to measuring sales per square foot, for example, but useless in assessing qualities such as critical thinking, creativity and wisdom. Evaluating use of performance indicators in Canada, the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, the authors challenge readers to look beyond this narrow, business-based measure of value, and to consider more creative and effective methods of evaluation.
Counting Out the Scholars is a penetrating analysis of current methods of performance evaluation in the university, one that offers alternatives to the prevailing orthodoxy.
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About the Author
DONALD C. SAVAGE is a consultant in higher education, Former Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers and an adjunct professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal.
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