Unnecessary tension between teaching and research
Learning to teach while in graduate school does not hinder the research careers of PhDs, a Portland State University team finds
New analysis out of Portland State University (PSU) contradicts the perception that research success is inversely correlated with time spent teaching or learning to teach. The PSU team surveyed more than 330 PhD students and found that those trained in so-called ‘evidence-based teaching’ (EBT), which emphasises interactive, collaborative and hands-on learning instead of the traditional lecture, are just as successful as researchers, if not more so, than their peers without such training.