Evaluation Practices and Impact: Overload?

TY - CHAP

T1 - Evaluation Practices and Impact: Overload?

AU - Hansen, Hanne Foss

AU - Aarrevaara, Timo

AU - Geschwind, Lars

AU - Stensaker, Bjørn

PY - 2019/1/1

Y1 - 2019/1/1

N2 - This chapter offers an analysis of evaluation practices in and around the universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The analysis builds on a conceptual framework focussing on a typology of evaluation models and combines these with an actor’s perspective. The analysis shows that similar evaluation ideas and models have been implemented across the countries, but also that when looking into evaluation practices, variations are considerable. Further, the chapter explores academics’ views on evaluation and evaluation impact. This part of the analysis reveals country differences and shows that evaluation criteria in policy- and managerial-driven evaluation schemes often do not match academic views on what constitutes and supports good performance.

AB - This chapter offers an analysis of evaluation practices in and around the universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The analysis builds on a conceptual framework focussing on a typology of evaluation models and combines these with an actor’s perspective. The analysis shows that similar evaluation ideas and models have been implemented across the countries, but also that when looking into evaluation practices, variations are considerable. Further, the chapter explores academics’ views on evaluation and evaluation impact. This part of the analysis reveals country differences and shows that evaluation criteria in policy- and managerial-driven evaluation schemes often do not match academic views on what constitutes and supports good performance.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-11738-2_8

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-11738-2_8

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9783030117375

SP - 235

EP - 266

BT - Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

A2 - Pinheiro, Romulo

A2 - Geschwind, Lars

A2 - Hansen, Hanne Foss

A2 - Pulkkinen, Kirsi

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Cham

ER -