The Research Assessment Exercise by Lee-Anne Broadhead, Sean Howard

“…In this article it is argued that the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)--undertaken by the United Kingdom's Higher Education Funding Councils (HEFC)--is part of a much larger process of assessment in education generally. …”
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Performative Accountability and the UK Research Assessment Exercise by Oancea, A

Du Research Assessment Exercise au système metrics by Nathan Schlanger

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The UK Research Assessment Exercise: the evolution of a national research evaluation system by Barker, K

On the agreement between bibliometrics and peer review: Evidence from the Italian research assessment exercises. by Alberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Giuseppe De Nicolao

“…The experiments were performed by the agency for validating the adoption in the Italian research assessment exercises of a dual system of evaluation, where some outputs were evaluated by bibliometrics and others by peer review. …”
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On the agreement between bibliometrics and peer review: Evidence from the Italian research assessment exercises by Alberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Giuseppe De Nicolao, Filippo Radicchi

“…The experiments were performed by the agency for validating the adoption in the Italian research assessment exercises of a dual system of evaluation, where some outputs were evaluated by bibliometrics and others by peer review. …”
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What constitutes good research in e-learning–are there lessons we can draw from the Research Assessment Exercise? by Gráinne Conole

“…The next Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is nearly upon us and as such I thought it would be useful to reflect on what the RAE offers us in terms of positioning our own research discipline and how it might help us to answer the question ‘what constitutes good e-learning research?…”
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Use of citation analysis to predict the outcome of the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise for Unit of Assessment (UoA) 61: Library and Information Management by Alison Holmes, Charles Oppenheim

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Metric-based vs peer-reviewed evaluation of a research output: Lesson learnt from UK's national research assessment exercise. by Kushwanth Koya, Gobinda Chowdhury

“…Answers to these questions will not only assist academics and researchers, but will also help higher education institutions (HEIs) make informed decisions in their administrative and research policies.To examine both the questions, we applied the United Kingdom's recently concluded national research assessment exercise known as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 as a case study. …”
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Correction: Metric-based vs peer-reviewed evaluation of a research output: Lesson learnt from UK's national research assessment exercise. by Kushwanth Koya, Gobinda Chowdhury

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Micropolitics of desire: participant self observation, critical autoethnography and the (re)turn to the baroque. by Cate Watson

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Quality, not Quantity, in the US Academy. by Dvora Yanow

“…Finn, Jr., former Us Assistant Secretary of Education, on current schools policy (quoted in Dillon 2010) Common ‘wisdom’ in Europe and the Uk has it that monitoring devices—the Research Assessment Exercise 1 and output measurements ...…”
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Better late than never… by Martin Oliver

“…Not because of any misguided sentimentality, but simply because the UK's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) seems to have caused us serious problems. …”
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Teaching and Research: An integrated Approach to the Undergraduate Studio in Landscape Architecture Education by Kevin Thwaites

“…It is argued that the project's strong theoretical framework, critical approach to problem evaluation, and contribution to wider research objectives help establish its value as equivalent to more conventional research outputs and, therefore, its relevance to research activity auditing procedures, such as the UK Research Assessment Exercise.…”
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Die Erziehungswissenschaft im Vereinigten Königreich: Die erziehungswissenschaftliche Forschungslandschaft im Spiegel der Forschungsevaluation by Ertl, H

“…REF folgte der 2008 zum letzten Male durchgeführten Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), welche wiederum seit 1986 im Abstand von in der Regel fünf bis sechs Jahren stattfand. …”

Evaluating the impact of Internet provision on students' information-gathering strategies by Julia Meek, Marie Garnett, John Grattan

“…And how does one balance the needs of an academic community pressured by the Research Assessment Exercise with the need to develop effective teaching and learning strategies which maximize the potential of IT for the academic community, for the students and for their future employers?…”
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Editorial Research recognition by Gabriel Jacobs

“…I was astonished by the large number of responses in my mailbox, not one of them dissenting from the views I expressed, and many offering examples of how excellent peer-reviewed publications in good journals, sometimes associated with very respectable research grants, had vanished into the ether when it came to the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). Outside education as a discipline (and even there . . . ) , RAE subject panels appear to consider that research into learning technology is not really worth counting. …”
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Peer review in research assessment and data analysis of Italian publications in SSD M-STO/08 (Archival science, bibliography, library science) by Rossana Morriello

“…In Italy, the first research assessment exercise (VTR) was based on peer review only, while the following ones (VQR) were based on different methods for bibliometric disciplines and non-bibliometric disciplines, namely bibliometric indicators and peer review. …”
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Beyond Academia - Interrogating Research Impact in the Research Excellence Framework. by Emma Terama, Melanie Smallman, Simon J Lock, Charlotte Johnson, Martin Zaltz Austwick

“…Replacing the earlier Research Assessment Exercise, the purpose of the REF was to assess the quality and reach of research in UK universities-and allocate funding accordingly. …”
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