If you invest in research, do you get great teaching?
We have all seen amazing researchers doing amazing presentations:
But, generally, do researchers make the best teachers?
While many universities put the case that doing excellent research improves teaching, many in academia know that this is probably not the case, and the balancing act of doing research and teaching is a difficult one. So a university will prioritized one over the other.
A recent paper concluded that good researchers did not improve the grades of undergraduate students (published in Economics of Education Review) and the most damning finding is that the most highly cited researchers were more likely to be classified as poor teachers.
The research involved a study of thousands of students, and where the students were allocated different teachers for their course. These teachers were analysed for the quality of the publications…
