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A Second Dystopia in Education: Validity Issues in Authentic Assessment Practices

Overview of attention for article published in Research in Higher Education, January 2016
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Article details
Title
A Second Dystopia in Education: Validity Issues in Authentic Assessment Practices
Published in
Research in Higher Education, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/s11162-016-9407-1
Authors

John D. Hathcoat, Jeremy D. Penn, Laura L. B. Barnes, Johnathan C. Comer

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Unknown 95 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 16%
Lecturer 13 14%
Researcher 9 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 22 23%
Unknown 14 15%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 30 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 8%
Arts and Humanities 8 8%
Psychology 6 6%
Engineering 4 4%
Other 21 22%
Unknown 19 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 16 October 2016.
All research outputs
#6,745,901
of 22,842,950 outputs
Outputs from Research in Higher Education
#311
of 670 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#108,998
of 394,941 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research in Higher Education
#11
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,842,950 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 670 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 394,941 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.