دانلود رایگان مقاله ارزیابی پژوهش: رویکرد چند رشته ای برای ارزیابی عملکرد تحقیق و کیفیت

abstract

There are few widely acknowledged quality standards for research practice, and few definitions of what constitutes good research. The overall aim was therefore to describe what constitutes research, and then to use this description to develop a model of research practice and to define concepts related to its quality. The primary objective was to explore such a model and to create a multidisciplinary understanding of the generic dimensions of the quality of research practice. Eight concept modelling working seminars were conducted. A graphic representation of concepts and their relationships was developed to bridge the gap between different disciplines. A concept model of research as a phenomenon was created, which included a total of 18 defined concepts and their relationships. In a second phase four main areas were distilled, describing research practice in a multidisciplinary context: Credible, Contributory, Communicable, and Conforming. Each of these was further specified in a concept hierarchy together with a defined terminology. A comprehensive quality model including 32 concepts, based on the four main areas, was developed for describing quality issues of research practice, where the model of research as a phenomenon was used to define the quality concepts. The quality model may be used for further development of elements, weights and operationalizations related to the quality of research practice in different academic fields.

4. Discussion

4.1. Main findings This study presents a general, generic and multidisciplinary framework for identifying what the quality of research practice might be, and how that model might be used to evaluate research quality. First, we created a concept model of research as a phenomenon, our reference model. This model included a total of 18 defined concepts and their relationships. Second, we created a concept hierarchy, our quality model, with 32 concepts with a defined terminology. Based on this concept hierarchy, the different elements can be used either with equal weights allocated to each concept, or by allocating different weights according to preferences in the specific context for evaluating research quality. This means that in the application of our comprehensive quality model some aspects may even be allocated the weight of zero, creating a special case of our model where certain aspects are not be included in that specific context and/or situation. The purpose of our quality model is to offer a broad comprehensive model, encompassing other more specific contextual situations.