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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
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Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

0260-2938

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/caeh20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 42 27 66 26

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 47
Documents by Best Scientists*: 86
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 114
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.422
Impact Factor: 3.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education?

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education investigates studies in Higher education, Mathematics education, Pedagogy, Formative assessment and Quality (business). Aside from Higher education, the journal also covered works in the field of Evaluation methods. The Mathematics education works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Test (assessment) and Grading (education).

It explores research in Pedagogy and the adjacent study of Engineering ethics. Summative assessment is part of Formative assessment studies tackled in the journal. Most of the works presented in it deals with Peer assessment but it intersects with the subject of Peer evaluation.

The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Experiential learning as it also encompasses Active learning. Many of the studies tackled connect Active learning with a similar field of study like Cooperative learning.

  • Higher education (51.13%)
  • Mathematics education (37.30%)
  • Pedagogy (37.08%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The adequacy of response rates to online and paper surveys: what can be done? (1570 citations)
  • Aligning assessment with long‐term learning (772 citations)
  • Peer Learning and Assessment (745 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education:

The published articles focus largely on the fields of Higher education, Mathematics education, Pedagogy, Peer feedback and Formative assessment. While the published papers focused on Higher education, they were also able to explore topics like Quality (business), Peer assessment, Grading (education) and Perception. The most cited publications facilitate discussions on Mathematics education that incorporate concepts from other fields like Context (language use) and Self-assessment.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Education
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education is mainly concerned with subjects like Higher education, Mathematics education, Literacy, Peer feedback and Peer assessment. In addition to Higher education research, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education aims to explore topics under Quality (business), Context (language use), Pedagogy, Student engagement and Public relations. The concepts on Mathematics education presented in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education can also apply to other research fields, including Perception and Process (engineering).

Peer feedback research presented in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education encompasses a variety of subjects, including Multimedia and Dialogic. The Peer assessment study featured in it draws parallels with the field of Self-assessment.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The power of internal feedback: exploiting natural comparison processes (18 citations)
  • Reconsidering student feedback literacy from an ecological perspective (17 citations)
  • Authentic feedback: supporting learners to engage in disciplinary feedback practices (16 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • David Boud (24 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Phillip Dawson (18 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • David Carless (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Paul Orsmond (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stephen Merry (9 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Deakin University (52 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Griffith University (42 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Hong Kong (42 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Queensland (42 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Sydney (36 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 6.34% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.31% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 21.80% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 9.02% of all publications and 45.86% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Developing a Learning-Centred Framework for Feedback Literacy.

    Elizabeth Molloy;David Boud;Michael Henderson

    (2020)
    426 Citations
  • Aligning assessment with the needs of work-integrated learning: the challenges of authentic assessment in a complex context

    Rola Ajjawi;Joanna Tai;Tran Le Huu Nghia;David Boud

    (2020)
    186 Citations
  • What feedback literate teachers do: an empirically-derived competency framework

    David Boud;Phillip Dawson

    (2021)
    174 Citations
  • Self-assessment is about more than self: The enabling role of feedback literacy

    Zi Yan;David Carless

    (2021)
    168 Citations
  • Unfolding collaborative learning assessment literacy: a reflection on current assessment methods in higher education

    Hajo Meijer;Rink Hoekstra;Jasperina Brouwer;Jan-Willem Strijbos

    (2020)
    133 Citations
  • From feedback-as-information to feedback-as-process: a linguistic analysis of the feedback literature

    Naomi Winstone;David Boud;Phillip Dawson;Marion Heron

    (2021)
    107 Citations
  • Student agency in feedback: beyond the individual

    Juuso Henrik Nieminen;Joanna Tai;David Boud;Michael Henderson

    (2021)
    96 Citations
  • Empowering learners with personalised learning approaches? Agency, equity and transparency in the context of learning analytics

    Yi-Shan Tsai;Carlo Perrotta;Dragan Gašević

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Authentic feedback: supporting learners to engage in disciplinary feedback practices

    Phillip Dawson;David Carless;Pamela Pui Wah Lee

    (2021)
    79 Citations
  • Students’ perceptions of, and emotional responses to, personalised learning analytics-based feedback: an exploratory study of four courses

    Lisa-Angelique Lim;Shane Dawson;Dragan Gašević;Srecko Joksimović

    (2020)
    72 Citations

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