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THE INVENTION OF EVALUATION SYSTEMS AND SELF-DEFINITIONS IN THE EVALUATION OF RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS SINCE THE 1980S
International Conference on Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (RESSH)
Rennes, 4-6 June 2015
Aline Waltzing, PhD Student Centre Alexandre Koyré History of Science and Technology EHESS, Paris
Contents • Two Big Questions: origins and purposes
• Permanencies and shifts
• Two Evaluation Systems
• Question 1: Discourses on origins
• Question 2: Discourses on purposes
• Part of larger patterns
• The place given to RESSH
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TWO BIG QUESTIONS
ORIGINS and PURPOSES of evaluation
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PERMANENCIES AND SHIFTS
Setting the timeframe for a historical perspective
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Two evaluation systems
France
• CNÉ (Comité National d’Évaluation)
Netherlands
Dutch Evaluation Protocols, by • KNAW (Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
• NWO (Organisation for Scientific Research)
• VSNU (Association of Dutch Universities)
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QUESTION 1 Discourses on origins
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Discourses on origins France
CNÉ
missions
bureaucracy
dysfunction
Netherlands
Evaluation Protocols
freedom
flexibility
OECD countries
social demand, dissatis-faction crisis
accountability
conditional
funding societal priorities
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QUESTION 2 Discourses on purposes
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Discourses on purposes France Netherlands
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mainly for the use of
universities
improvement
autonomy, responsibility knowing
oneself, being
accountable
mainly for the use of
universities
improvement
autonomy and quality assurance accountability,
useful to society
Avoid over regulation
democratise
self management, missions, strategies, negotiation for budget, reorganisation
EVALUATION AS PART OF LARGER PATTERNS
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THE PLACE GIVEN TO RESSH CNÉ, 1980s
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CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK
Thank you very much for your attention
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Two different systems
France
• Design, organisation, issue of the report: CNÉ
• Visit, drafting of report: external experts
Netherlands
• Design: KNAW, NWO and VSNU
• Organisation: VSNU, since 2003 the universities themselves
• Visit, drafting of report: external experts
• Issue of the report: VSNU, since 2003 the universities themselves
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