Research enchancing the quality of teaching: Econometric evidence from Brazil

Abstract

We find evidence that the process of doing research increases the professor’sknowledge andenhances thestudent evaluationof teaching (SET) with a lag. Moreover, the results suggest that research activity seems to be complementary to teaching. The research activity seems to increase the quality of teaching at the moment that it is put in place, i.e., both activities can be seen as ’mutually reinforcing’

Keywords

• Student Evaluation Score
• Fixed-Effect Model
• Research
• and Quality of Teaching