Abstract:

Studies on the relationship between teaching and academic research has been a focus of higher education research.
Effective coordination between research and teaching is of great importance in improving the quality of teaching in higher
education institutions. In the 1990s Ernest L. Boyer first proposed the concept of“scholarship of teaching”. After more than
20 years，it has developed into an international movement. By analyzing the data collected through a questionnaire survey，
this paper probes into the present teaching and academic status of energy universities in China，and finds out that teachers in
“985”universities and“211”universities tend to value academic research above teaching. Detailed analysis of the data reveals
that university teachers’daily working time declines with the decline of the ranking of their universities，but the working time
devoted to teaching increases on the other hand. In terms of curriculum design and student performance，“985”and“211”
colleges are generally better than ordinary energy universities；in terms of teacher training，a larger proportion of teachers from
ordinary energy universities have the opportunity of teacher training and they have more positive opinions on teacher training，
but the quality and level of training is significantly lower than that of the“985”and“211”universities.“The scholarship of
teaching”has become a crucial and fundamental issue in improving the teaching quality and deepening the teaching reform in
ordinary energy universities.

Key words: teaching reform；teaching；academic, teaching quality；higher education