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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Main Author: Lamont, Michèle, 1957-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Opening the black box of peer review
  • How panels work
  • On disciplinary cultures
  • Pragmatic fairness : customary rules of deliberation
  • Recognizing various kinds of excellence
  • Considering interdisciplinarity and diversity
  • Implications in the United States and abroad.