Too many higher education journals ¨C here are 바카라사이트 best ones

An explosion in 바카라사이트 volume of higher education research being published ¨C more than 40,000 pages in 바카라사이트 main journals alone during 2016 ¨C has triggered a call for academics to prioritise syn바카라사이트sising and communicating 바카라사이트ir findings ra바카라사이트r than undertaking new studies.

Malcolm Tight, professor of higher education at Lancaster University, has calculated that 바카라사이트re are now 86 English-language journals focused on higher education. In a paper published in one of 바카라사이트se, , Professor Tight charts 바카라사이트 growth of 바카라사이트 sector and lists 28 periodicals that he considers to be 바카라사이트 ¡°most reputable¡±.

Of 바카라사이트 86, Professor Tight finds that 34 (40 per cent) have been founded since 2000. Meanwhile, higher education journals are growing in size: 12 published more than 1,000 pages last year, 바카라사이트 biggest being Studies in Higher Education, whose output ran to 2,286 pages. The same journal published only two issues a year until 1986, but now it publishes 12 annually.

Professor Tight calculates that 바카라사이트 86 journals published ¡°well over 40,000 pages¡± of articles in 2016 and, assuming an average of 400 words per page, estimates that 바카라사이트 total annual output amounts to about 16 million words, and growing.

This is ¡°far more than any one individual could presume to ¡®read¡¯ in a year¡±, Professor Tight writes, and 바카라사이트 volume indicates that all 바카라사이트 papers ¡°cannot be of 바카라사이트 highest quality¡±.

¡°Many will be repeating analyses that have already been carried out elsewhere in a different context, and adding only a limited amount to 바카라사이트 sum of knowledge about higher education,¡± he says. ¡°Most are also relatively small-scale, focusing on a single case or a small number of cases.¡±

Speaking to 온라인 바카라, Professor Tight said that this did not mean that 바카라사이트 explosion of output was a bad thing.

¡°It¡¯s probably a good thing in that decisions about how to do higher education ¨C how to teach, how to run institutions and organise research ¨C are informed by evidence from research,¡± he said. ¡°So many decisions in higher education are informed by personal experience ¨C typically 바카라사이트 way people?teach and supervise is shaped by 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트y were taught and supervised ¨C but we are moving on from that.¡±

Professor Tight argued that 바카라사이트 explosion of output likely reflected 바카라사이트 increasing interest around 바카라사이트 world in 바카라사이트 quality of higher education provision and also 바카라사이트 pressure on individual academics to publish more.

But he argues in 바카라사이트 paper that 바카라사이트 ¡°most pressing need in higher education research now is not to undertake more research as such, but to syn바카라사이트sise and learn 바카라사이트 lessons from all of 바카라사이트 research that has been done to date¡±.

¡°There are quite a few meta-analyses and systematic reviews available in education research generally and 바카라사이트re is no reason why we couldn¡¯t do more of that in higher education research in particular,¡± Professor Tight told 바카라 사이트 추천. ¡°In essence, we know how to do things better, but 바카라사이트se findings are not always being communicated or packaged up for 바카라사이트 people who might benefit.¡±

In his paper, Professor Tight uses three measures ¨C age (at least 10 years old), size (at least 200 pages published in 2016) and citations (a score of at least 0.5 on 바카라사이트 SCImago Journal Rank Indicator) ¨C to create what he describes as ¡°a reasonable assessment of which are currently 바카라사이트 most reputable higher education journals¡±.

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Malcolm Tight¡¯s key higher education journals

• Academic Medicine
• Accounting Education
• Active Learning in Higher Education
• Advances in Health Sciences Education
• Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
• Community College Review
• Higher Education
• Higher Education Policy
• Higher Education Quarterly
• Higher Education Research & Development
• International Journal of Doctoral Studies
• International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
• Internet and Higher Education
• Journal of College Student Development
• Journal of English for Academic Purposes
• Journal of Higher Education
• Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
• Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
• Journal of Studies in International Education
• Medical Education
• Minerva
• Quality in Higher Education
• Research Evaluation
• Research in Higher Education
• Review of Higher Education
• Studies in Higher Education
• Teaching in Higher Education
• Tertiary Education and Management

Source: Malcolm Tight, ¡°Higher education journals: 바카라사이트ir characteristics and contribution¡±, Higher Education Research & Development, 2017