Three ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Boulder education faculty were recently recognized in the āEdu-Scholar Public Influence Rankingsā as being among the nationās top 200 researchers whose scholarship had a notable influence on educational practice and policy last year.
American Enterprise Institute director of education policy studies andĀ Education WeekĀ blogger Frederick M. Hess recently released 2019 rankings, which included CU Boulder School of Education researchers: Gene V. Glass (No. 38), William Penuel (No. 66), and Kevin Welner (No. 142).
The annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings were first published in December 2010, and its founder sees the list as āone small way to encourage academics to step into the fray and revisit academic norms.ā
Given that more than 20,000 university-based faculty in the U.S. are researching education and are eligible, the recognition of top 200 scholars is highly competitive. The exercise aims to spotlight scholars who move ideas from academic journals into the national conversation.Ā
Using nine metrics, Hess and a selection committee of 29 accomplished scholars attempt to calculate how much university-based academics contributed to public discussions of education. The categories include: Google scholar scores, book points, highest Amazon ranking, syllabus points, education press mentions, web mentions, newspaper mentions, congressional record mentions, and Kred score.
Hess noted the limitations, including senior scholarsā increased opportunities to build a substantial body of work and influence and that readers may care more for some categories than others, yet he added āthe point is to spur discussion about the nature of constructive public influence.ā
The full 2019 list and archives can be found onĀ .