“Supporting excellence in the arts: from measurement to judgement”     

Susannah Eckersley 《Cultural Trends》2008,17(3):183-187

The DCMS paper “Supporting excellence in the arts”, also known as the McMaster Review, raised more questions than it answered in terms of how UK cultural policy is likely to develop in the future. Although many of its intentions are laudable, the report fails to resolve the inherent problems associated with defining, measuring and judging cultural “excellence”, even though this forms the core of McMaster's argument about how policy should develop. This may have significant implications for cultural institutions in the future.

In addition, many of the report's recommendations may either be contradictory or impractical in the current policy climate – such as the desire for institutions to take more risks whilst simultaneously increasing visitor numbers and meeting other targets. As such, without a wider change in the Government's approach and a re-acknowledgement of culture's intrinsic value, “excellence” may just become the latest buzzword for practitioners, rather than the key principle upon which future decisions will be based.  相似文献   

Reconsidering Effective and Affective Teaching     

黄雁鸿 《读与写:教育教学刊》2009,6(9):3-4,9

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Government research evaluations and academic freedom: a UK and Australian comparison     

Ann Martin-Sardesai  Helen Irvine  Stuart Tooley  James Guthrie 《高等教育研究与发展》2017,36(2):372-385

Performance management systems have been an inevitable consequence of the development of government research evaluations (GREs) of university research, and have also inevitably affected the working life of academics. The aim of this paper is to track the development of GREs over the past 25 years, by critically evaluating their adoption in the UK and Australian higher education sector and their contribution to the commodification of academic labour, and to highlight the resultant tensions between GREs and academic freedom. The paper employs a literature-based analysis, relying on publicly available policy documents and academic studies over the period 1985–2010. GREs are a global phenomenon emanating from new public management reforms and while assessments of university research have been welcomed, they have attracted critique based on their design, the manner in which they have been applied, and the unintended consequences of their implementation on academic freedom in particular. Consistent with international research on the impact of GREs, Australian research assessments appear to be undoing the academic freedom that is central to successful research. Further empirical research on the impact of GREs on academics is urgently needed.  相似文献   

高校及科研院所机构协同创新绩效的影响因素研究——基于社会网络的视角     

常路  汪旭立  符正平 《科技管理研究》2019,39(14)

本文以联盟管理、社会网络理论为基础，以参与“2011计划”协同创新中心的合作单位为研究对象，从组织声誉、联盟经验和网络中心性三个维度，对高校、科研院所的产学研合作协同创新绩效的影响因素进行了研究。在对国内外相关理论研究进行梳理与回顾的基础上，提出研究问题并建立实证研究模型，并利用二手数据进行分析验证。最终得到以下结论：（1）高校及科研院所的组织声誉与协同创新绩效之间的关系不显著；（2）高校及科研院所的联盟经验与协同创新绩效之间存在显著的正相关关系；（3）高校及科研院所在协同创新合作网络中所处位置的中心性对其联盟经验与协同创新绩效之间的关系起部分中介作用；（4）政府合作对高校及科研院所在协同创新合作网络中所处位置的中心性与其创新绩效之间关系的调节作用不显著。  相似文献   

Do altmetrics assess societal impact in a comparable way to case studies? An empirical test of the convergent validity of altmetrics based on data from the UK research excellence framework (REF)     

Lutz Bornmann  Robin Haunschild  Jonathan Adams 《Journal of Informetrics》2019,13(1):325-340

Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although altmetrics are already in use as impact or attention metrics in different contexts, it is still not clear whether they really capture or reflect societal impact. This study is based on altmetrics, citation counts, research output and case study data from the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF), and peers’ REF assessments of research output and societal impact. We investigated the convergent validity of altmetrics by using two REF datasets: publications submitted as research output (PRO) to the REF and publications referenced in case studies (PCS). Case studies, which are intended to demonstrate societal impact, should cite the most relevant research papers. We used the MHq’ indicator for assessing impact – an indicator which has been introduced for count data with many zeros. The results of the first part of the analysis show that news media as well as mentions on Facebook, in blogs, in Wikipedia, and in policy-related documents have higher MHq’ values for PCS than for PRO. Thus, the altmetric indicators seem to have convergent validity for these data. In the second part of the analysis, altmetrics have been correlated with REF reviewers’ average scores on PCS. The negative or close to zero correlations question the convergent validity of altmetrics in that context. We suggest that they may capture a different aspect of societal impact (which can be called unknown attention) to that seen by reviewers (who are interested in the causal link between research and action in society).  相似文献   

Measuring scientific contributions with modified fractional counting     

Gunnar Sivertsen  Ronald Rousseau  Lin Zhang 《Journal of Informetrics》2019,13(2):679-694

We develop and propose a new counting method at the aggregate level for contributions to scientific publications called modified fractional counting (MFC). We show that, compared to traditional complete-normalized fractional counting, it eliminates the extreme differences in contributions over time that otherwise occur between scientists that mainly publish alone or in small groups and those that publish with large groups of co-authors. As an extra benefit we find that scientists in different areas of research turn out to have comparable average contributions to scientific articles. We test the method on scientists at Norway’s largest universities and find that, at an aggregate level, it indeed supports comparability across different co-authorship practices as well as between areas of research. MFC is thereby useful whenever the research output from institutions with different research profiles are compared, as e.g., in the Leiden Ranking. Finally, as MFC is actually a family of indicators, depending on a sensitivity parameter, it can be adapted to the circumstances.  相似文献   

开展创先争优活动促进师德师风建设   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘展顺 《福建教育学院学报》2011,(3):25-27

师德师风在教育教学工作中对提高教学质量、激励学生奋进、潜移默化影响学生、促进学生健康成长等起重要的作用。高等学校深入开展的创先争优活动,是进一步加强学校基层党组织和党员队伍建设的有效载体,可以有效促进师德师风建设,提高教育教学质量。因此,必须通过开展一系列的创先争优活动,有效带动师德师风建设。  相似文献   

营养组合调控对提高运动能力的作用研究     

侯丽  刘慧燕 《福建体育科技》2011,30(4):21-23

文章以当前运动营养研究成果为理论基础,使用复合营养物质,通过纯肌酸、谷氨酰胺、强化多肽片和运动饮料的组合,充分发挥复合营养素的协同作用,达到从整体上提高训练效果的目的。举重、皮划艇项目运动员进行运动营养组合调控5—6周后,运动员体脂百分率降低,在不明显增加体重的情况下,肌肉量增加,承受大负荷训练能力提高,减轻大负荷训练...  相似文献   

基于平衡记分卡的体育场(馆)运营绩效评价研究     

冯振旗 《中国体育科技》2011,47(3)

体育场(馆)的运营绩效不仅关系着区域体育经济的振兴和我国体育事业的发展,而且对于优化配置体育资源和广泛开展体育传播具有重要的作用.由于体育场(馆)的空间多样性和复杂性特征,其绩效管理问题一直是影响和制约其有效运营的瓶颈.尽管研究者已经从多个方面对体育场(馆)问题进行了剖析,提出了许多有价值的观点,但尚未建立起有效的绩效评价体系.针对体育场(馆)运营绩效的有效性评价缺失,以体育场(馆)运营绩效评价为目标,引入平衡计分卡的财务、顾客、内部流程和学习与成长4个维度,分析和建立体育场(馆)运营绩效评价的指标体系和评价模型,并结合实际数据进行算例评价.  相似文献   

试论职业联赛表演业产业链的构成要素特点     

王嵩  张超慧  丁建仁 《四川体育科学》2011,(2):33-36

随着我国提出从＂体育大国＂迈向＂体育强国＂的发展方针,联赛表演业的发展已成为引领我国迈向＂体育强国＂的关键之一。本文从联赛表演业的产业链视角出发,在找准其产业链构成要素的基础上,重点对产业链构成要素的特点进行分析,以求为联赛表演业产业链的良好运转提供理论依据。  相似文献