Description
One of the most persistent features of the research environment in the UK over the last decades has been the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE); now more and more countries are following suit by developing their own systems for research quality assessment. However, in the field of education, one of the difficulties with this policy has been that a
Table of Contents
Editorial John Furlong and Alis Oancea (1) Expressions of Excellence and the Assessment of Applied and Practice-based Research Alis Oancea and John Furlong (2) Mediating Academic Research: the Assessment Reform Group experience Richard Daugherty (3) Changing Models of Research to Inform Educational Policy Kathy Sylva, Brenda Taggart, Edward Melhuish, Pam Sammons and Iram Siraj-Blatchford (4) Co-production of Quality in the Applied Education Research Scheme Jenny Ozga (5) Developing Knowledge Through Intervention: meaning and definition of ‘quality’ in research into change Bridget Somekh and Lesley Saunders (6) Ethics in Practitioner Research: an issue of quality Susan Groundwater-Smith and Nicole Mockler (7) Weight of Evidence: a framework for the appraisal of the quality and relevance of evidence David Gough (8) Assessing the Quality of Action Research John Elliott
