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Direct linkPhoenix, David – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2021
Positive social mobility benefits individuals in terms of personal advancement and the nation in terms of productivity. There are other social benefits aside. Education, including higher education, is widely understood to be a key contributor to social mobility. However, without a measure of universities' impact on social mobility it is difficult…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Higher Education, Universities, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedMoore, Kenneth; Coates, Hamish; Croucher, Gwilym – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The paper contributes to the growing and often controversial study of higher education productivity measurement. The paper clarifies core productivity ideas, and considers alternative models for productivity assessment. Results from these models are explored using data from Australian higher education. Findings reveal implications for the…
Descriptors: Productivity, Higher Education, Measurement, Efficiency
Erkkilä, Tero; Piironen, Ossi – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2018
Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national attributes have been evaluated under international comparative assessment. Reflecting this…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Competition
Cacioppo, John T.; Cacioppo, Stephanie – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
Ruscio and colleagues (Ruscio, Seaman, D'Oriano, Stremlo, & Mahalchik, this issue) provide a thoughtful empirical analysis of 22 different measures of individual scholarly impact. The simplest metric is number of publications, which Simonton (1997) found to be a reasonable predictor of career trajectories. Although the assessment of the scholarly…
Descriptors: Measurement, Outcome Measures, Scholarship, Bibliometrics
Porter, Theodore M. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
Ruscio et al. (Ruscio, Seaman, D'Oriano, Stremlo, & Mahalchik, this issue) write of a thing with which scientists and scholars are all too familiar, the assessment of published research and of its authors. The author was startled to discover how little the agenda of the paper seems to engage with factors one relies on for salary and promotion…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Data Analysis, Evaluative Thinking, Bias
Bornmann, Lutz – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
Ruscio, Seaman, D'Oriano, Stremlo, and Mahalchik (this issue) evaluate 22 bibliometric indicators, including conventional measures, like the number of publications, the "h" index, and many "h" index variants. To assess the quality of the indicators, their well-justified criteria encompass conceptual, empirical, and practical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citation Analysis, Correlation, Meta Analysis
