Competition with research in universities is very harmful to teaching. Therefore, it would be much more beneficial to teaching to develop a sound program of educational research. Such a program would improve teaching theory and technique. It would also make clear what competencies are required of a good teacher as well as help professors attain them.
Educational research should be required to meet the same standards as scientific research, but it cannot be raised to those standards without comparable support and duty. Competent educational research is no more a part-time activity than competent scientific research. The relatively trivial (琐碎的) educational research so common in the universities is an inseparable result of trivial duties by the universities. Rather than look down upon such research, the professors have an obligation to see that it is upgraded.
Let no one think that educational research is easy; it is concerned with no less than solving the complexit
A. should be encouraged
B. is very beneficial to teaching
C. makes clear how to be good teachers
D. is not beneficial to instruction
Chinese universities and American universities are different in many ways. First, Chinese students enroll in fewer courses each term than American students do. Second, unlike American students, Chinese students seldom live outside the campus. Instead, they live on the campus of the university. Third, most courses in Chinese universities are given by professors who lecture to their classes. In contrast, American professors often ask their students questions or allow them to form discussion groups. Fourth, Chinese professors ask students to write fewer papers than American professors do. Finally, a Chinese university is mainly a place to study. But at most American universities, social activities take up a large part of the students’ time.
Chinese students: (1) They enroll in fewer courses.
(2) They (46) live outside the campus.
(3) (47) lecture to t
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