The Evaluators' Eye Impact Assessment and Academic Peer Review /

• Main Author: Derrick, Gemma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Higher education.; Assessment.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Teaching.; Education-Research.; Higher Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Research Methods in Education.

This book offers an empirical analysis of how academic peer review panels mediate the traditionally non-academic criterion of societal impact. The UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) for the first time included an "Impact" criterion that considered how research had influ...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Impact from the Evaluator's Eye
• Chapter 2. Peer Review of Impact: Could it Work?
• Chapter 3. Evaluation Mechanics
• Chapter 4. Introducing Impact to the Evaluators
• Chapter 5. Peers, Experts and Impact
• Chapter 6. Risking Groupthink in Impact Assessment
• Chapter 7. Working Smarter with Multiple Impacts and One Eye.