ABSTRACT
In recent years, one of the most noted trends in higher education in Taiwan has been the implementation of the university evaluation system and the resulting changes in the content of college education. The evaluation of universities and colleges is very complicated and multifaceted. Although such systems have been applied in Europe and Australia for many years, they still cannot avoid the criticism and shame brought to researchers and institutions of advanced learning. Furthermore, the existence of such systems makes it difficult for institutions to avoid surveying the substance of education as a result of stressing quantitative evaluation standards 1 as well as the problem of academic politics. 2 Since Taiwan has begun to push evaluation systems for universities and colleges, the abovementioned problems, which have appeared frequently overseas, have begun to appear, though with a different intensity and speed. Among these evaluations, the most difficult, and yet the most important, is the evaluation of research performance in the humanities and the social sciences.
