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Doctoral progress reviews: managing KPIs or developing researchers?

SRHE

Given that there were just over 100,000 doctoral students registered in the UK in 2021 ( HESA, 2022 ), it could therefore be argued that the progress review is a relatively prominent, and potentially high stakes, example of higher education assessment.

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Options for Replacing Standardized Test Scores for Researchers and Rankers

Robert Kelchen

In this blog post, I want to look a few years farther down the line. This means that people who have used test scores in their work—whether as academic researchers or college rankings methodologists—will have to think about how to proceed going forward. News’s decision to keep standardized test scores in their rankings this year.

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The SRHE Digital University Network: A Decade of Trends and Future Directions

SRHE

by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. We noted details like the date, authors, location, and research methods for each paper.

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The pandemic and the progression plans of young people from widening participation backgrounds

SRHE

However, these commentators and researchers were reporting in the midst of the pandemic when much was uncertain. The timing of this research coincided with the easing of lockdown restrictions ( UK Parliament, 2021 ). However, there remains a need for more research.

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Ungrading: Social Work Education Honoring the Whole Student

The Scholarly Teacher

In the National Association of Social Work’s Code of Ethics (2021) the six core values include service, the importance of human relationships, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, integrity, and competence. International Journal of Research in Education and Science , 9 (1), 55–75. 2021, May 1). link] Kwak, J.

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Four Big Questions on Carnegie Classifications Changes

Robert Kelchen

It is World Series time, so why not devote a blog post to one of the most fascinating inside baseball conversations within higher education? There is still a lot of uncertainty about the final results, but the most concrete change is to the coveted Research I university criteria. Some colleges appear to already do this.

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Finding Her Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What’s so important is she does it from a data-driven perspective, using her research foundation … taking her research knowledge and translating it into advocacy and social justice.” It was titled ‘Racism in the Time of COVID-19.’ It came out just as data was emerging on the racial inequities.”