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    Is impact a measure of quality? Producing quality research and producing quality indicators of research in Australia

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    Author
    YATES, L
    Date
    2006
    Source Title
    Australian Educational Researcher
    Publisher
    The Australian Association for Research in Education
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Yates, Lynette
    Affiliation
    Melbourne Graduate School of Education
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    YATES, L. (2006). Is impact a measure of quality? Producing quality research and producing quality indicators of research in Australia. Australian Educational Researcher, Special Issue: Review of Australian Research in Education, pp.119-132
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/28400
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    C1 - Refereed Journal Article

    Abstract
    Neither impact nor peer review no ‘addressing national research priorities’ are without problems as appropriate criteria for quality assessment in the field of education, but each is being raised in current debates about quality research, and each is indicative of some competing agendas that thread through quality research re-assessments in Australia. This paper discusses some conflicting agendas and trajectories within recent Australian research policy and funding mechanisms for education, as well as the broader context of the status of education research and how this impacts on debates and strategies with regard to quality. It is argued that the education research community do need to develop appropriate quality indicators in the field of education, but to do this effectively requires attention also to the contextual pragmatics and politics of how such assessments will be enacted. More broadly it is also important that the current focus on measures of quality assessment be re-coupled with more attention to contexts of production of education research and the issue of how quality research can be developed.
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    Specialist Studies in Education

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