Can Increasing Teaching Rewards Improve Teaching Quality? An Empirical Study of 63 Universities Across the Country

Abstract

Although teaching and scientific research are both important tasks for college and university teachers, the phenomenon of emphasizing scientific research over teaching prevails. In the evaluation system, universities tend to give more weight to scientific research. As a result, teachers’ scientific research achievements are linked with their appointment, assessment, promotion, and salaries; Insufficient attention to teaching leads to low teaching quality. This study explores the effect of teaching incentives on teaching quality improvement by comparing the teaching incentives in different universities. Ordinary least squares is used to estimate the effect of teaching incentives on academic evaluation of teaching performance.