The UK Research Assessment Exercise: the evolution of a national research evaluation system

Barker, Katharine

doi:10.3152/095820207x190674

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“…However, the Matthew Effect of bias to elite university in the distribution of resources as the RAE runs. The RAE institution of UK has a certain reference value for the study on research performance evaluation system and financial allocation mode in China [3,4].…”

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Research Performance Evaluation of Chinese University Based on DEA

Li¹

2017

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Abstract. The university performance evaluation has been one of the difficult problems for a long time. And the university research performance evaluation is a difficulty of difficulties. Based on the practice experience of research performance evaluation from developed countries, this paper summarized and reflected on the main characteristics and shortcomings of Chinese university research performance evaluation indexes and methods, and built the measuring index system based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Then it put forward performance evaluation technology with the combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and DEA, trying to explore the evaluation mode of university research performance innovatively.

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Research Performance Evaluation of Chinese University Based on DEA

Li¹

2017

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“…Universities have increasingly chosen to submit only those staff they consider will make a positive contribution to their departmental research profiles, and it is likely that the steady increase that has been observed in average UoA grades over the RAEs is due, in part at least, to the deliberate exclusion of those who are perceived to be less productive in research terms, an action that may well have morale and career implications for those not chosen. Other reasons that have been suggested for the observed increase in average grades include grade inflation, and the ability of universities to make increasingly convincing cases as one exercise has followed another (Barker, 2007;Martin & Whitley, 2010). That said, one would hope that at least some of the upwards trend in grades that has been observed has come about as a result of real increases in the quality of the research that is being assessed.…”

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“…Further discussions of the evolution of the evaluation procedures over the period are presented in several reviews (Barker, 2007;Bence & Oppenheim, 2005;Gilroy & McNamara, 2009;Martin & Whitley, 2010;Morgan, 2004).…”

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The Assessment of Research Quality in UK Departments of Library and Information Management

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2012

Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Europe

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Purpose Provides an historical overview of assessments of research quality conducted by the United Kingdom funding councils in the period 1986-2008, with special reference to the assessments that have been carried out of departments in the library and information management (LIM) sector. Methodology/approach A literature review covering both LIM-specific material and more general sources discussing the assessment of research quality in UK universities. Findings There is clear evidence of an increase in the general quality of the research carried out by the LIM sector over the review period. This has been accompanied by a decrease in the number of traditional LIM departments submitting themselves for assessment, with these being replaced in the assessment process largely by information systems departments. The rankings over the review period have been dominated by a small number of departments with long-established research traditions. Originality/value of the paper While there is an extensive literature describing research assessment in general, and a few articles describing individual assessments in the LIM sector, there is no overview of the involvement of the LIM departments over the whole series of assessment exercises that has been carried out.

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“…Until 2008, the RAE was the national research evaluation system in the UK and covered all research disciplines and higher education institutions in the UK. Its main purpose was to assist in the allocation of block grant funding according to a retrospective peer-based quality assessment (Barker, 2007;Whitley, 2007) Mahdi et al (2008). 6 For further details on this matching procedure see Crespi et al (2011).…”

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Inventors and Entrepreneurs in Academia: What Types of Skills and Experience Matter?

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This paper aims to improve our understanding of the attributes of academic researchers that influence the capacity to contribute to technical advance, by either adding to the pool of technological opportunities available to industry or engaging in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities themselves. We investigate a number of factors associated with the skills developed by academic researchers. We find that

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The UK Research Assessment Exercise: the evolution of a national research evaluation system

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Research Performance Evaluation of Chinese University Based on DEA

Research Performance Evaluation of Chinese University Based on DEA

The Assessment of Research Quality in UK Departments of Library and Information Management

Inventors and Entrepreneurs in Academia: What Types of Skills and Experience Matter?

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