1.0 Introduction The Canadian magazine Macleans has for several years published an annual ranking of Canadian universities based on the undergraduate experience they offer. Macleans means to provide perspective university students with an idea of what is available to them. What most of these potential students fail to understand and question is how to ascertain the validity of the study. It is taken for granted that the study is reliable and valid based solely on the …showed first 75 words of 835 total…

…showed last 75 words of 835 total…validity. 5.0 Usefulness of Findings The findings of this research are useful. The study is the most in-depth study of Canadian universities. The study provides potential students with an opportunity to se what universities across Canada have to offer. However, the issue of how the findings were arrived upon remains in question. We do not know how reliable and valid this study is because of the lack of pertinent information on how the study was conducted.