Ranking e valutazione: il caso delle classifiche delle università

Journal title RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione
Author/s Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Daniele Checchi, Chiara Guglielmetti, Silvia Salini, Matteo Turri
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2008/41 Language Italian
Pages 34 P. 81-114 File size 1261 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIV2008-041006
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Ranking e valutazione: il caso delle classifiche delle università - Abstract The paper consists of two parts. The first is more general: it introduces to university ranking, shows the leading international ranking, discusses the uses people make of rankings. The second focuses on Italian ranking Censis-la Repubblica developing two different kinds of analyses: after considering indicators validity and reliability, principal components analysis and cluster analysis are applied to a partial replication of Censis-la Repubblica data. A list of points to pay attention comes out of these analyses: it can be useful when defining rankings of complex institutions such as universities.

Key words: ranking, university ranking, Censis-la Repubblica, validity and reliability, normalisation and combination of indicators.

Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Daniele Checchi, Chiara Guglielmetti, Silvia Salini, Matteo Turri, Ranking e valutazione: il caso delle classifiche delle università in "RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione" 41/2008, pp 81-114, DOI: 10.3280/RIV2008-041006