Teaching & Learning Guide: Teacher Scholar

Boyer, Ernest. (1990) Foundational article. A study of the definition of scholarship in higher education, with a historical overview and statistical data. Proposes that four general areas of endeavor should be viewed as scholarship: discovery, integration of knowledge, teaching, and service. Discusses the trend toward a singular view of scholarship as research and publication and proposes reconsidering the priorities of the Professoriate, broadening the definition of scholarly work, and changing the reward system to include the other three areas. December 1990. A special report.

A Teagle Foudation White Paper. American Council of Learned Societies, May 2007. On the basis of existing evidence and our own observation, we contend that the teacher-scholar model of faculty professional activity brings important benefits to individual student learners, the institutions where that model flourishes, and to society more broadly.

Kuh, George D., Daniel Chen, and Thomas F. Nelson Laird. "Why Teacher-Scholars Matter." Liberal Education 93.4 (2007): 40-45. The article discusses a study which aimed to estimate whether student engagement at institutions where faculty reported behaviors consistent with the teacher-scholar model differ from those of their counterparts at other schools. The analytical method used was hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), which allows for the appropriate control of student background characteristics and institutional factors while protecting against problems of correlated error terms associated with using a conventional regression model for analyzing multi-level data.