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Want to Be a Good Researcher? Try Teaching
Category: For Graduate Students
Resource Type: PDF
Date Posted: 10/20/2011

Graduate students in the sciences who both teach and conduct research show greater improvement in their research skills than do those who focus exclusively on laboratory work, says a report by Dan Berrett to be published in the August 19 issue of Science. The findings run counter to the conventional wisdom underlying the training and rewarding of graduate students in the sciences, which tends to view teaching as a distraction from research.

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