“大学排行榜”:商业抑或科学?

University Rankings:Commerce or Science?

大学排行榜在中国的出现,在某种程度上是高等教育在大众化过程中质量评估市场导向民间化的一个标志,但如何实现大学排行榜对后大众化时代高等教育发展的良性指导作用,却有待于大学排行榜自身的合理化。只有获得人们认可的非营利性权威机构,才有可能为社会提供有参考价值的大学教育质量信息,并发挥其合理的社会导向作用。当前的大学排行榜不仅在技术上需加强评价指标的科学性和数据处理的严肃性,更应在价值取向上避免过分追求商业价值而误导社会大众。

University rankings is a symbol of marketing and socialization of Chinese higher education system, but how to realize its positive function for higher education＇s development is still a problem. Now, university rankings itself is not perfect. Only when the society regards it as a believable evaluation system and it can provide the society useful information of higher education quality, its function of social direction can be effective. Current university rankings should pay more attention to the science of its evaluation object and data and avoid producing harmful effect.