Creating SPACE to evolve academic assessment
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Author(s)
Schmidt, Ruth
Curry, Stephen
Hatch, Anna
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Universities and research institutions have to assess individuals when making decisions about hiring, promotion and tenure, but there are concerns that such assessments are overly reliant on metrics and proxy measures of research quality that overlook important factors such as academic rigor, data sharing and mentoring. These concerns have led to calls for universities and institutions to reform the methods they use to assess research and researchers. Here we present a new tool called SPACE that has been designed to help universities and institutions implement such reforms. The tool focuses on five core capabilities and can be used by universities and institutions at all stages of reform process.
Date Issued
2021-09-23
Date Acceptance
2021-09-16
Citation
eLife, 2021, 10
ISSN
2050-084X
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Journal / Book Title
eLife
Volume
10
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article is distributed under the
terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use and
redistribution provided that the
original author and source are
credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
academic assessment
evaluation
research culture
research assessment
DORA
metrics
None
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN e70929