The Impact of Impact
Alex Usher,
Higher Education Strategy Associates,
Nov 23, 2021
I find it ironic that Alex Usher complains about the lack of evaluation and measurement of impact in academia in a column that contains not one shred of evidence in support - no concrete examples, no statistical basis for the trends he cites, no objective rationale for saying things like "(impact) is in many cases not much more than a creative writing exercise." And - even more ironically - when he (misleadingly) says "in practice, 'impact' is not that different from 'knowledge mobilization'" he contradicts his main point, given the enormous amount of time and effort spent on knowledge mobilization and its wayward sibling, knowledge translation. Perhaps it would be better to do the research rather than to simply pass along uninformed opinions shared with him in the boardroom. Image: TBS, Guide to Rapid Impact Evaluation, Canada.
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