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  • Feb 2024
  • Stefan Penders
  • 16

bron: University World News By Richard Holmes Recently, criticism of global university rankings has intensified. The causes and the possible consequences of this discontent are diverse and the future is hard to see, but it is a good bet that, in a few years, the international ranking scene will look very different. As is often noted, global rankings began in 2003 with the first edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by...

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  • Oct 2023
  • Stefan Penders
  • 12

bron: blog van Rob Johnson op LinkedIn (Johnson is zelfstandig research consultant in de UK) Last week provided evidence on multiple fronts that efforts to move away from oversimplified metrics in the evaluation of universities and their staff members are starting to bear fruit. Good news for Goodhart Goodhart's law states that 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure'. If the 86-year old economist occasionally turns h...

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  • Jun 2023
  • Stefan Penders
  • 1
  • 33

Het Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLASCO) verenigt meer dan 800 onderzoeksorganisaties in de sociale wetenschappen en de geesteswetenschappen, verspreid over 51 landen in Zuid-Amerika en de Cariben. Binnen het netwerk houdt het Latin American Forum on Research Assessment (FOLEC) zich bezig met open debat rond de beoordeling van onderzoek, en werkt daarbij samen met organisaties binnen en buiten Zuid-Amerika. CLASCO-FOLEC heeft, in...

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Kennisbank // Knowledge Base
  • Jun 2023
  • Stefan Penders
  • 24

The GYA, the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the International Science Council (ISC) Centre for Science Futures have released a synthesis paper which sets out the major drivers, opportunities and challenges for research evaluation reform and collates illustrative examples of change happening at global, regional, national and institutional levels. The paper is intended to serve as a prospectus for in-depth conversations with stakeholders inc...

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  • Dec 2022
  • Stefan Penders
  • 32

Bij de Constitutive Assembly van CoARA zijn de eerste ideeen voor Working Groups geidentificeerd via Mentimeter. Hieronder vinden jullie de ideeen. Aan welke internationale Working Groups willen jullie bijdragen? Wie wil voorzitter zijn van zo'n Working Group? What are your first suggestions for possible topics of CoARA Working Groups? Researcher participation Sharing good practices in choosing a change approach Responsible numerical bibliom...

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