Zamyšlení nad akademickými hady a žebříky – jaká jsou pravidla hry a jaké má tato hra důsledky pro hodnocení akademických pracovníků?

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https://doi.org/10.54937/2026.9788056112410.25-31

Autori/ Authors: Jan Stoklasa    Jana Stoklasová

In: DOKOR 2025. Recenzovaný zborník z interdisciplinárnej doktorandskej konferencie

ISBN: 978-80-561-1241-0

Strany/ Page Range: 25-31

Rok vydania/ Publication Year: 2026

Jazyk/ Language: English

Vydavateľ/ Publisher: VERBUM – vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku

Abstrakt/ Abstract: This paper discusses the “academic ladders” and “academic snakes”- rankings and other various tools - that help us get oriented in the academic landscape. The rankings, be it of universities, states, schools, research teams and even individuals, as well as of study programmes and whole fields of study, are expected to provide a simple and understandable decision support. And in many cases, they actually succeed in communicating the relative performance of the entities being compared. So, they do give us the answer (obviously based on the methodology that is being applied to evaluate the entities and then rank them based on the evaluations) concerning who is currently “doing better” and they might even help in the identification of the examples of good/bad practice. While the potential usefulness and benefits of the rankings seem to be clear, this paper aims to draw attention to the potential cost of the use of rankings, particularly in the context of continuous evaluation and development tracking. In other words, it is intended to ask question concerning the drawbacks, loss of information and other related issues of rankings, and the relative information contained therein, being applied in performance and quality assessment, with a more profound focus on the area of academic staff performance evaluation.  

Kľúčové slová/ Keywords: evaluation, academia, performance, relative, absolute, rankings, aggregation

Citácia/ How to cite:

STOKLASA, Jan and STOKLASOVÁ, Jana, 2026. On The Academic Snakes and Ladders Game – What are the Rules and Implications for Academic Staff Evaluation? In: DOKOR 2025. Recenzovaný zborník z interdisciplinárnej doktorandskej konferencie. Online. Ružomberok: VERBUM – vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku, 2026, s. 25-31. ISBN 978-80-561-1241-0.  Available from: https://doi.org/10.54937/2026.9788056112410.25-31

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