The research service of the Teaching Support Centre is available to teachers and sections who would like to:

• understand aspects of teaching and learning, in order to better plan changes to courses or programmes
• evaluate planned innovations.

We can work with teachers and sections on all aspects of the research/evaluation process:

• the design of a research or evaluation project
• identification and translation of psychometric tests or development of new instruments
• data collection and entry
• data analysis/ interpretation and clarifying the implications for teaching and learning. 

Please contact Roland Tormey, or the pedagogical advisor for the relevant section.

Our research service

In order to improve their practice, teachers need reliable and valid information about how to best help students to learn particular kinds of knowledge and skills. Internationally this kind of applied research has come to play an important role in innovation in higher education teaching and is referred to as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), or Action Research.

Since such research is intended to be practical – providing realistic solutions to real-life challenges for teachers and learners – it is intrinsically linked with the content being taught. Here in EPFL that implies a focus on researching the teaching and learning of science and engineering, known as STEM education research.

In order to ensure the quality of this research work and to allow for knowledge and innovations to be disseminated, research findings are presented and published in national and international forums.

Research & Development programmes and projects