Effectiveness of Teaching Research Nexus to Enhance Students' Learnings

摘要

The modern university is characterized by a strong relationship between research and teaching. Existing literature suggests that very few investigations contributing to the teaching-research nexus debate have been examined through students' perspective. Therefore, a study was conducted to investigate students' perception on effectiveness of teaching-research nexus at the University of South Australia. Lecturer delivered his five research outcomes in the first five lectures of CIVE 5077: Water Futures course and thereafter conducted a survey using five point Likert scale questionnaire to understand students' perception. The respondents' number was 36; among them 36.11 % students were female, 58.33 % were international students, 30.55% were postgraduate students and 77.77% studants' grade points were above credit standing. 58.33% students agreed and 22.22% students strongly agreed that lecturer's research driven teaching was more interesting than theory based teaching. 75% students believed that research based teaching provided more learning opportunities compared with problem based teaching. However, only 47% students were motivated to perform a future research based on lecturer's research driven teaching. The outcomes of this study can be used in better formulation of curriculum for university level courses.