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Sep 2015
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Competing for excellence: Perverse and c...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Professor Paul Wouters discusses the current tensions in the way researchers are being evaluated and assessed and introduces the concept of "evaluation machines" to understand the dynamics behind disconnected assessment practices. 
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