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 mo

This book explores the challenges of assessing quality in applied and practice-based research in education. It offers various views on quality in applied and pr

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Tina Besley has edited this collection which examines and critiques the ways that different countries, particularly Commonwealth and European states, assess the

This book raises important questions about the extent to which policy can be derived from research and about the kind of evidence which should inform policy. Ch