Timeline for Evaluation of professors: publications vs. teaching quality
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| Dec 18, 2016 at 17:06 | history | edited | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 7, 2016 at 6:25 | comment | added | user1482 | People who enjoy teaching more than research will look for a job that emphasizes teaching. People who enjoy research more than teaching will look for a job that emphasizes research. Schools that value teaching more than research will reward teaching more than research. Schools that value research more than teaching will reward research more than teaching. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 13:35 | history | edited | lanoxx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2016 at 7:29 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @aparente001: the reference-request tag is for "Questions requesting a supporting document or citation for a specific query." The OP specifically asked for publications supporting his analysis, which makes the question a reference request. (Then again, I'm not overly sure about how useful the tag really is...) | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 3:42 | answer | added | user65587 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 3:30 | comment | added | NZKshatriya | I can say this plainly: Best professor I have had so far has published nothing, but connected with students really well. Worst professor I have had, has several books published and cannot connect at all. | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 3:22 | comment | added | aparente001 | @StephanKolassa - Did you add the reference-request tag? If so, can you help me understand the relevance? | |
| Dec 3, 2016 at 3:20 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 19:13 | comment | added | BrianH | It's important to remember that only a small fraction of institutions are top research Universities. How professors are evaluated at an R1 is very different then how they are evaluated at places where everyone teaches at 3-4 classes every semester. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 14:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/804696275933392896 | ||
| Dec 2, 2016 at 14:36 | comment | added | Daniel Wessel | It's not only your impression, PhD Comics made this point very ... impressively: phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1111 And yep, in the end, it's publications and funding that keeps a department afloat, not satisfied students. And given this "publish or perish" pressure you could come to the conclusion that "one minute invested in teaching is a minute lost for research". Others love teaching and the lack of (high quality) publications breaks their necks. And few great ones do both very well, and unfortunately, some do both very badly. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 12:51 | comment | added | Nikey Mike | @StephanKolassa opinion is right. However, at my faculty, the publication record and quality of teaching don't come at equilibrium. There are very good teachers with a limited publication record, and also decent professors with limited teaching skills but with very strong papers in the field. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 12:44 | history | edited | Stephan Kolassa |
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| Dec 2, 2016 at 12:44 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | I don't know whether it's just your three bullet points. IMO, doing research is simply more interesting than teaching, especially introductory courses. Most people stay in academia because they love the thrill of doing research. Once you have taught the same introductory material ten times over the years, writing a new paper looks really good by comparison. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 12:00 | history | edited | adipro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2016 at 11:52 | history | asked | lanoxx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |