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Shifting assessment paradigms in South African higher education: Evolving towards transformative approaches to policy development.

Overview of attention for article published in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, December 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Shifting assessment paradigms in South African higher education: Evolving towards transformative approaches to policy development.
Published in
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, December 2023
DOI 10.36615/sotls.v7i3.334
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 53 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 3 6%
Student > Master 3 6%
Researcher 3 6%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 37 70%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Chemistry 2 4%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 38 72%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 46. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 January 2024.
All research outputs
#1,051,368
of 29,575,546 outputs
Outputs from Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South
#2
of 13 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,432
of 428,300 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,575,546 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 13 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.5. This one scored the same or higher as 11 of them.
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