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Assessment innovation and student experience: a new assessment challenge and call for a multi-perspective approach to assessment research [PDF]

, 2014
The impact of innovative assessment on student experience in higher education is a neglected research topic. This represents an important gap in the literature given debate around the marketization of higher education, international focus on student ...
Bazeley P., Biggs J., Boud D., Buckley A., Chalmers D., Clegg K., Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Falchikov N., Foskett N., Furedi F., Gibbs G., Gibbs G., Gov.UK, Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy, Hounsell D., Marton F., McDowell L., Oberg K., Race P., Sambell K., Sheena Bevitt, UK Homeoffice, UKCISA (UK Council for International Student Affairs), Welikala T., Williams J.   +26 more
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In numbers we trust?

eLife, 2014
Scientists go to great lengths to ensure that data are collected and analysed properly, so why, asks Eve Marder, do they apply different standards to data about the number of times research papers have been cited and viewed?
Eve Marder
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Editorial statement: Lessons from Goodhart’s law for the management of the journal

European Journal of Government and Economics, 2014
In this editorial statement we summarise some of the discussions we have had in the last months regarding the risks associated with the use of indicators for the measurement of research outputs, and how these risks should affect the management of the ...
Diego Varela, Giacomo Benedetto, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Santos   +2 more
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The Use of PIDs in Research Assessments [PDF]

, 2020
The assessment of research outputs and impacts is a core contribution to many planning and decision processes in universities. However these assessment are often characterized by closedness and little involvement by the actual researchers being assessed. This presentation will take starting point in outlining and discussing how PIDs – like eg.
Lauridsen, Nikoline Dohm, Melchiorsen, Poul Meier   +1 more
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The forced battle between peer-review and scientometric research assessment: Why the CoARA initiative is unsound

Research Evaluation
Endorsed by the European Research Area, a Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), primarily composed of research institutions and funders, was established in 2022.
G. Abramo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Expanding the Assessment of Research Activity [PDF]

Clinical Neuroradiology, 2020
Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL. Dept. of Neuroradiology, Universitatsklinikum Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany Laszlo Solymosi You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar Correspondence to Laszlo Solymosi. L. Solymosi declares that he has no competing interests.
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Comment on: Responsible Research Assessment I and Responsible Research Assessment II

Meta-Psychology
A long-term personnel policy in filling professorships, aimed at remedying deficits in psychological research, should be able to significantly improve the scientific quality of psychology: “The main reason is that the hiring and promotion of such ...
Erich H. Witte
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Struggling and juggling: a comparison of assessment loads in research and teaching-intensive universities [PDF]

, 2018
In spite of the rising tide of metrics in UK higher education, there has been scant attention paid to assessment loads, when evidence demonstrates that heavy demands lead to surface learning.
Barlow A., Becker H. S., Black P., Bloxham S., Carmen Tomas, Fung D., Gibbs G., Gibbs G., Miller C. M. L., Neves J., Newstead S. E., Tansy Jessop, Warren Piper D.   +12 more
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Citation, Citation, Citation: Bibliometrics, the web and the Social Sciences and Humanities

Cybergeo, 2007
The use of digital resources and the affirmation of research assessment exercises throws a new light on the issue of bibliometrics. The paper reviews the main data bases and indicators in use.
Christine Kosmopoulos, Denise Pumain
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Clashing Concepts and Methods: Assessing Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Humanities, 2015
The humanities are going through a period of exceptional vitality characterised by the proliferation of novel interpretative frameworks, methodologies and perspectives.
Peter Scott
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