Evaluation Processes and Results for National University Corporations: An Empirical Analysis
Evaluation for national universities incorporated in 2004 has two roles: learning process within university through self-evaluation and controlling mechanism of the government by evaluation of accomplishment against the medium- term goals. However，the latter， according to the policy design，shall be linked to resource allocation which inevitably leads to rankings or relative evaluation among universities given limited amount of public money. The first experiences of comprehensive evaluation for each national university are analyzed in terms of conflict-resolution or harmonization between two roles. It is shown that the actual figures have combined or mixed meanings of summative and formative evaluation. Also it indicates that the real impact on resource allocation was quite few despite larger efforts for the universities and the government.