Why Doesn't Research Improve Teaching? Some Answers from a Small Liberal Arts College.

Friedrich, Robert J.; Michalak, Stanley J., Jr.

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Publication Date: 1983

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Why Doesn't Research Improve Teaching? Some Answers from a Small Liberal Arts College.

Friedrich, Robert J.; Michalak, Stanley J., Jr.

Journal of Higher Education, v54 n2 p143-63 Mar-Apr 1983

A study at Franklin and Marshall College to determine why research does not appear to have the beneficial effect on teaching that so many have assumed it does is discussed. It is thought that scholarship makes a professor more knowledgeable and that a more knowledgeable professor makes a better teacher. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Analysis, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Models, Research, Scholarship, Small Colleges, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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