Tagged: "Student-to-Faculty Ratio"
Only Being Taught By Adjunct Professors?
A new study finds an association between student retention and adjunct faculty. Who will be teaching you when you go to college?
Adjunct Faculty and Student-to-Faculty Ratios: What Universities Don't Know
I recently wrote a post blasting the idea of student-to-faculty ratios as a bogus measure of educational quality. It turns out that universities themselves don’t have a solid measure of what the ratios really are, or even keep track of the percentage of students taught by tenure-track professors–as opposed to adjunct, part-timers, or graduate students. [...]
Student-to-Faculty Ratios: A Bogus Statistic You Should Ignore
Student-to-faculty ratios mislead. While they are oft-cited indicators of teaching quality, these ratios have no bearing on an individual student's educational experience.
Student-to-Faculty Ratio and Small Class Sizes: Unintended (Negative) Consequences
Colleges cite their student-to-faculty ratios and average class size as indicators of the intimacy and quality of the educational experience they offer to students. Rankings systems, such as those employed by US News & World Report and Newsweek, include these statistics among their variables. I’ve been writing about these statistics and what they mean (see [...]
Class Size and Student-to-Faculty Ratios: What the Statistics Don't Tell You
When a client asked me the other day about the importance of student-to-faculty ratios, I got to thinking about other supposed indicators of educational quality. The other oft-cited statistic when visiting an admissions office is “average class size.” As with student-to-faculty ratios, the size of the classes at a college is assumed to reflect the [...]
Student-to-Faculty Ratios: What Do These Statistics Mean?
The other day I received this question from a client: Hi, Mark. I’ve been reading college profiles, and nearly all of them cite student-to-faculty ratios, all of which fall in to a relatively narrow range of perhaps 12:1 to 20:1. How important is this statistic in choosing a college? My short answer: not very. The [...]
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