What Affects Teaching and Research Behaviors: A Case of A University in China

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This research was supported by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 17YJC880018)

Abstract

In order to analyze the preference of university teachers' teaching and research behavior, this research analyzes the influencing factors of teachers' teaching and research behaviors such as age, gender, professional title, degree, type of graduation universities based on discrete data analysis of teachers' actual workload in 12 years from a certain university in China. The study shows that the workload of teaching and research was significantly and positively affected by age. Professional title, degree and type of graduation universities have no significant impact on the teaching workload, but have a significant impact on the research workload. The proportion of teachers' workload between teaching and research will also be affected by gender, degree and type of graduation universities. The results also show that doctoral teachers who graduated from First-class universities and First-class discipline universities are not outstanding in research.

Keywords: university teachers, teaching and research behaviors, influencing factors, discrete data analysis

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-33-02

Publication date: November 30^th 2021