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 Improving doctoral education
Many doctoral students say they are generally satisfied with the quality of their doctoral preparation, yet a survey shows that doctoral education could be improved in a number of ways.

Training Researchers of Tomorrow
WCER’s Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) in the Education Sciences is preparing a new generation of scholars who can provide solid evidence of “what works” in education.

Research is Important, but so is Teaching
Federal funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, have begun demanding visible, practical results of funded research. Calls for research proposals now require that scientists describe how their proposed research will have “broader impacts” by contributing to the growing fund of knowledge and to the near-term public good. Broader impact activities can include teaching the public, translating research results into instructional materials for classroom use, and increasing the participation of groups that are under-represented in science because of gender, ethnicity, disability, and/or geography.
The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) works to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) teaching and learning by preparing graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to be future faculty who are both excellent researchers and excellent teachers.