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Dear Colleagues
You may be interested to see the following extract from the Final version of
the RAE Assessment Panels' criteria and working methods relating to
pedagogic research.
The full document (RAE 5/99) is available at:
http://www.rae.ac.uk/Pubs/default.htm
Happy Christmas
Mick
Research Assessment Exercise 2001:
Assessment panels' criteria and working methods
December 1999
RAE 5/99
1.10 Research into the teaching and learning process within higher
education (pedagogic research) is regarded by the funding bodies as a valid
and valued form of research activity. It will be assessed by all subject
panels on an equitable basis with other forms of research.
Definition of Research and Eligible Outputs
1.11 The definition of research which applies in the exercise is as
follows.
'Research' for the purpose of the RAE is to be understood as original
investigation undertaken in order to gain knowledge and understanding. It
includes work of direct relevance to the needs of commerce and industry, as
well as to the public and voluntary sectors; scholarship*; the invention and
generation of ideas, images, performances and artefacts including design,
where these lead to new or substantially improved insights; and the use of
existing knowledge in experimental development to produce new or
substantially improved materials, devices, products and processes, including
design and construction. It excludes routine testing and analysis of
materials, components and processes, e.g, for the maintenance of national
standards, as distinct from the development of new analytical techniques.
It also excludes the development of teaching materials that do not embody
original research.
* Scholarship is defined for the RAE as the creation, development and
maintenance of the intellectual infrastructure of subjects and disciplines,
in forms such as dictionaries, scholarly editions, catalogues and
contributions to major research databases.
1.12 In order to be eligible for submission, all items of research output
must embody the outcomes of research as defined for the purposes of the RAE.
Teaching materials are admissible if they can be shown to embody research
outputs within the RAE definition, but the preparation of teaching material
in itself is not accepted as a research activity for the purposes of the
RAE.
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