Research Evaluation and Professors Teaching Performance
- Artés Caselles, Joaquín
- Pedraja Chaparro, Francisco Manuel
- Salinas Jiménez, María del Mar
Publisher: Universitat de Girona = Universidad de Gerona
Year of publication: 2014
Pages: 44
Congress: Encuentro de Economía Pública (21. 2014. Girona)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
This paper studies the relationship between research activities and teaching quality in the context of the Spanish University system. Our aim is to investigate if there is any relationship between being an active researcher and the teaching quality of college professors in Spain. We use a panel data set from the University of Extremadura which contains information on teaching evaluations and research performance, among other variables, during a ten year period (from 2001-2002 to 2011-2012). Regardless of the specification and definition of research intensity adopted, our results suggest that professors who are more involved in research are also those obtaining better results in teaching evaluations, thus pointing to a positive link between research and teaching quality.