<p>Improving UF’s 2008 Peer Assessment </p>
<pre><code> Peer Assessment- VALUE 25%
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<p>Overall Rank/ State Rank/ School / delta<br>
38/ 10t/ UW-Madison/ 4.1/ -0.5<br>
44/ 13t/ UT- Austin/ 4.1/ -0.5<br>
38/ 10t/ UIUC/ 4.0/ -0.4<br>
42/ 11t/ UWashington/ 3.9/ -0.3<br>
38/ 10t/ UC- San Diego/ 3.8/ -0.2<br>
42/ 11t/ UC- Davis/ 3.8/ -0.2<br>
48/ 16/ PSU/ 3.8/ -0.2<br>
44/ 13t/ UC- Irvine/ 3.6/ 0<br>
49/ 17/ UF/ 3.6/ same/ RANKED 16th
44/ 13t/ UC- SB 3.5/ 0.1 </p>
<p>PEER ASSESMENT CONCLUSION:
UF IS TIED FOR #16 WITH UC IRVINE. ONLY UCSB IS RANKED LOWER AT #17 WITH A 3.5</p>
<p>FACT: UC San Diego was ranked top 10 with a peer score of 3.8.
UC- Davis and PSU are also ranked 3.8.
For a category that is worth 25% of the total USNWR rankings UF has A LOT OF WORK TO DO HERE with only a 3.6.
They need to improve .2 points to match UC- Davis, UC- SD and PSU.</p>
<p>From what I have read the changes in USNWR WILL NOT make much change to this category.
LINK: [‘U.S</a>. News’ Adds Surveys That Could Alter Methodology :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/09/usnews]'U.S”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/09/usnews) </p>
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<p>Others have bashed UF’s 3.6 PR score. That score does handicap UF in moving up in the USNWR rankings since it’s worth 25% of their total score.</p>
<p>Found this interesting article done in 2005 by a professor at Emory. Others on CC seem to agree with his conclusions that Peer Assessment is linked to Graduate School Assessment.</p>
<p>LINK: [The</a> Academic Exchange](<a href=“http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2005/octnov/hicks.html]The”>http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2005/octnov/hicks.html)</p>
<p>He concludes through his analysis:
“Strictly from the perspective of enhancing the colleges reputation, then, improving the graduate school would appear to be a relatively effective, even optimal, policy.”</p>
<p>It appears UF is indeed already laying the groundwork for higher Peer Review scores with all the money coming into its graduate programs.</p>
<p>It will however take some time to improve this number in order to increase the PA score.</p>
<p>THEREFORE: No chance of short term improvement here.</p>