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专八题目:
The Validity of College Rankings
专八范文:
The publication of college rankings each year would draw increasing attention from interested people.Those people include reporters,college administrators and faculty,alumni,parents,and high school students.Together with other popular guidebooks, college rankings feature data on the overall universities and colleges in China.Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet once stated that “what is in a name? That which we calla rose.By any other name would smell as sweet.”We can ask a similar question over the college rankings:what is in a number?
每年公布的大学排名吸引了许多人的关注
Some scholars warn that college rankings use objective measures to evaluate subjective considerations so that they can only tell a prospective college student a limited amount.In my opinion,we should take several rankings into consideration to evaluate a specific college’s place in the ranking,instead of only relying on one ranking.
许多学者认为大学排名是一种衡量大学水平的客观途径,所以,它的排名很片面
Firstly,to decide whether college rankings give a college a fair shake,it is crucial to look at the methodology of the ranking system.While one system may conclude peer assessment,retention rate, facultyresources,student selectivity,and financial resources,another system may lay its emphasis on the number of famous alumni,the student evaluation of professors and the evaluation of college students.Accordingly,the same university may rank top in one publication of one ranking system,but be reduced to theaverage university category in another ranking system.Generally speaking,based on the same criteria, the rankings can objectively reflect the strength of a certain university,but it can not tell the whole story ofa college.Besides,many universities are characterized by their unique disciplines. We can not simply reach conclusion that a music and drama university is worse than a technological university according to their places in the ranking system.
首先,大学排名是否公平,如何做出的大学排名是非常重要的
Secondly, college rankings are likely to be manipulated, which inevitably reduces their authority and trustability. As a president from a famous university revealed, one college ranking compiling organizationonce visited him and insinuated that if the president agreed to sponsor their organization, they could put the college in higher places of ranking. According to some news report, this phenomenon is not rare. Many universities have been invited to “corporate”with some ranking compiling organizations. Can we still believe that college rankings reflect the strength of some universities when some universities sponsor the compiling in exchange of higher places in the ranking?
第二,大学排名很有可能是人为控制的,这将不可避免地将减少它的权威性和可信性
In a word, college rankings, an important means to evaluate universities, are based on different methodologies. As one methodology only focuses on certain aspects of higher learning, we have to consult with several ranking systems and then we can find out the whole story of a university. We should also be cautious about the manipulation behind the scenes.
总之,大学排名是评价大学的重要手段,而这样的排名是根据不同的测量方法而定的
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