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Finally, the study suggests that judgments of organizational quality may, like judgments of individual ability, involve both inductive and deductive inferences. Status may be determined by being perceived to be good in specific areas of high value and by the halo effect of being associated with a high status college.

Notes

1 I want to thank David Breneman, Bruce Gansneder, Timothy Konold, and Sarah Turner, for their probing comments that helped make this a much stronger paper. Needless to say, responsibility for all claims and conclusions remains entirely my own.

2 College rank is used as the indicator of overall university status because US News gives no rank for a university's graduate level as a whole.

3 Note that the zero-order correlations between college status and sub-field status are about the same for social foundations, educational psychology, higher education, administration/ supervision, elementary education, andcurriculum and instruction. Thus, the results cannot be explained away because ofsomeunique confounding of social foundations and college status compared to these other major sub-fields.

References

(2000a). Education School Ranks: US News: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/ bced.htm.

(2000b). How We Rank Graduate Schools: US News: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/ beyond/gradrank/gbrank.htm

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Eric Bredo is a professor in the Department of Leadership, foundations, and Policy at the Carry School of Education of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.