把婴儿和水一起扔掉:国家研究评估对研究的不良影响
Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater: The Undesirable Effects of National Research Assessment Exercises on Research
摘要:
在国家一级对研究质量进行评价已变得越来越普遍。自1986年以来,英国一直处于这一趋势的前沿,进行了许多评估,最新的是2014年的卓越研究框架。本文的论点是,无论在评估和改进研究方面的预期结果如何,都有许多可能是无意的结果,这些结果对研究和大学社区来说都是非常不受欢迎的。我们使用布迪厄的文化再生产理论进行分析,然后重点关注2008年RAE和2014年REF的特殊性,其规则允许,实际上鼓励,努力大学的一部分进行重大的游戏。最后,我们提出了一些切实可行的建议,以保持研究评估的总体意图,而不会产生不良的副作用。
英文摘要:
The evaluation of the quality of research at a national level has become increasingly common. The UK has been at the forefront of this trend having undertaken many assessments since 1986, the latest being the Research Excellence Framework in 2014. The argument of this paper is that, whatever the intended results in terms of evaluating and improving research, there have been many, presumably unintended, results that are highly undesirable for research and the university community more generally. We situate our analysis using Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction and then focus on the peculiarities of the 2008 RAE and the 2014 REF the rules of which allowed for, and indeed encouraged, significant game-playing on the part of striving universities. We conclude with practical recommendations to maintain the general intention of research assessment without the undesirable side-effects.
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