Thanks Von. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:55 PM, vonjobi <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are many ways of determining the "best" and the "worst." For this > unofficial ranking, the best and worst library and information science (LIS) > schools in the Philippines may be identified using the aggregate passing > rates for each school whose graduates took the Librarians' Licensure > Examination<http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/03/licensed-librarians.html>for > the first time in 2007, 2008 and 2009, the only years for which detailed > results per school are available. Only schools with examinees for all three > years are included in the tables below. The schools are divided into three > groups: those with 31 or more examinees, those with 11 to 30, and those with > 10 or less. > > LLE 2007-2009: Best & Worst LIS > Schools<http://www.scribd.com/doc/26497275/LLE-2007-2009-Best-Worst-LIS-Schools> > > Note that the schools have been divided into groups arbitrarily, and that > no school has actually been designated as "best" or "worst." This will be > left the reader to judge. The following observations, however, are offered > as a way of demonstrating the need to divide the schools into groups—and its > drawbacks—and the ways in which the tables may be used: > > - Only two schools had more than 100 examinees: UP with 129, and PUP > with 123. The former's passing rate is 95 percent, while the latter's is 45 > percent. > - National Teacher's College, with 32 examinees, and Mindanao State > University, with 30, are not in the same group, but one has a 6 percent > passing rate, while the other's is 73 percent. > - All of Saint Louis University's 12 examinees passed. In contrast, not > one of the 17 graduates from University of Northern Philippines-Vigan made > it. > - Six schools were represented from 2007-2009, but all their examinees > were repeaters, and that's why their names are on the list but no data is > provided. > > Why am I doing this? There is very little information available to students > regarding the quality of LIS schools, and it is my hope that this effort of > mine can provoke more detailed studies. If even one prospective LIS student > looks at these tables and decides to go to one school, instead of another, > then the time I've spent on this would have been worth it. > > The data used for this post came from the following files: > 2007<http://von.totanes.googlepages.com/LLE2007.pdf>, > 2008 <http://von.totanes.googlepages.com/LLE2008.pdf> and > 2009<http://www.scribd.com/doc/22742961/Librarian-Licensure-Examination-2009>. > Below is an alphabetical list of all the schools, with passing rates for > first timers, repeaters and overall performance:Librarians' Licensure Exam > 2007-2009<http://www.scribd.com/doc/26497211/Librarians-Licensure-Exam-2007-2009> > > > > — > (*Philippine Daily Inquirer*, 2009) > (*Manila Bulletin*, 2009) > > -- > Posted By vonjobi to Filipino > Librarian<http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/best-and-worst-lis-schools-2007-2009.html>at > 2/07/2010 09:03:00 AM > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Filipino Librarians" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<filipinolibrarians%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en.
