The trade-off between graduate student research and teaching: A myth?

ABSTRACT: Many current faculty believe that teaching effort and research success are inversely correlated. This trade-off has rarely been empirically tested; yet, it still impedes efforts to increase the use of evidence-based teaching (EBT), and implement effective teaching training programs for graduate students, our future faculty. We tested this tradeoff for graduate students using a national sample of life science PhD students. We characterize how increased training in EBT impacts PhD students' confidence in their preparation for a research career, in communicating their research, and their publication number. PhD students who invested time into EBT did not suffer in confidence in research preparedness, scientific research communication, or in publication number. Instead, overall, the data trend

SUBMITTER: Shortlidge EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6016899 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature