TY - BOOK AU - Lamont,Michèle TI - How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment SN - 9780674032668 AV - LB2333 -- L36 2009eb U1 - 378.1/2 PY - 2009///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - College teachers KW - Rating of KW - Education, Higher KW - Enseignants KW - Efficacité KW - Hochschullehrer KW - Evaluation KW - Manuskript KW - Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift KW - Peer review KW - Portfolios in education KW - Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) KW - Évaluation KW - Teacher effectiveness KW - EDUCATION / Higher KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1 / Opening the Black Box of Peer Review --; 2 / How Panels Work --; 3 / On Disciplinary Cultures --; 4 / Pragmatic Fairness: Customary Rules of Deliberation --; 5 / Recognizing Various Kinds of Excellence --; 6 /Considering Interdisciplinarity and Diversity --; 7 /Implications in the United States and Abroad --; Appendix: Methods and Data Analysis --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? Michèle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants, and interviewed panel members at length. In How Professors Think, she reveals what she discovered about this secretive, powerful, peculiar world. Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential process of evaluation and to push the gatekeepers to both better understand and perform their role UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054158 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674054158.jpg ER -