How professors think: inside the curious world of academic judgment

Judging quality isn't robotically rational; it's emotional, cognitive, and social, too. Yet most academics' self-respect is rooted in their ability to analyze complexity and recognize quality, in order to come to the fairest decisions about that elusive god, "excellence." In...

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1. Verfasser: Lamont, Michèle 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung:Judging quality isn't robotically rational; it's emotional, cognitive, and social, too. Yet most academics' self-respect is rooted in their ability to analyze complexity and recognize quality, in order to come to the fairest decisions about that elusive god, "excellence." In How Professors Think, Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential process of evaluation and to push the gatekeepers to both better understand and perform their role. --from publisher description
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 289 - 315
Beschreibung:330 S.
ISBN:9780674032668

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