Do Excellent Research Environments Produce Better Learning and Teaching Outcomes?

Résumé du livre

Recent discussion of policies to promote quality tertiary education has been premised on the notion that teaching and research are independent activities, with teaching performance unrelated to research output. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between research quality and teaching performance. The empirical analysis is based on the recent 'Excellence in Research for Australia' 2010 ratings and the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund measures for 2007-2008 by field across Australian universities. We found that high-performing research environments do generate high-quality learning and teaching in 'economic' outcomes but not in 'perception' outcomes.