The Evolution,Operational Mechanism and Re-form Characteristics of the Research Evaluation in Italian Universities
Research evaluation in universities is related to the healthy development of research and innovation activities,and is crucial for promoting national scientific and tech-nological innovation and social development.In the context of the transformation of the knowledge production model,the penetration of the New Public Management(NPM)and the crisis of governmental funding cut,the research evaluation in Italian universities has been evolving in terms of disciplinary categorization,selection of experts,evaluation criteria and evaluation methods.Taking the latest round of VQR2015-2019 as an example,Italy has formed a unique research evaluation operation mechanism.And it presents distinctive characteristics of organized by a government-led third-party independent institution,focus-ing on the scientificity and reliability of evaluation method,and emphasizing the social im-pact of scientific research achievements.This also reveals that implementing and innovating the research evaluation in Chinese universities is supposed to make more efforts to cultivate the third-party evaluation organizations and build a supporting system,to comprehensively use the evaluation methods and set up the quality orientation of the research evaluation,and to add the social impact dimension in order to pursue the excellent value of the research evaluation.
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