The Evaluation of Research Merit versus the Evaluation of Research Funding
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The evaluation of research and researchers is an example of a fairly basic kind of evaluation. It normally involves either a ranking or a grading (aka., rating) of research projects or personnel for merit, worth, or significance, and these are tasks that we know a good deal about doing.
But the evaluation of research funding is another kind of animal altogether. It aims for an apportionment or allocation decision, which is either something essentially different from evaluation or, with a stretch, a highly complex kind of evaluation decision. It is certainly a decision that depends on more than one kind of basic evaluation, but it depends on them in a way that has never been reduced to a formula or computer program.
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