DOCTORAL SCHOOLS INVEST IN AN HOLISTIC RESEARCH ASSESSMENT

The use of holistic assessment tools that avoid a heavy reliance on narrow data fields are being increasingly adopted for evaluating higher education PhD programmes and individual student performance, a European University Association (EUA) meeting has been told. 'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts’, was the name of a session about rethinking research assessment at the 2024 EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) annual meeting, which took place on June 26-28, in Barcelona, Spain. The council is the ...


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