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 How Professors Think, La...
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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.