Publication Date
In 2024 | 0 |
Since 2023 | 0 |
Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
Political Science | 4 |
Active Learning | 2 |
Civics | 2 |
College Instruction | 2 |
College Students | 2 |
Foreign Policy | 2 |
Honors Curriculum | 2 |
Undergraduate Students | 2 |
Anxiety | 1 |
Assignments | 1 |
Citizenship Education | 1 |
More ▼ |
Author
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 5 |
Reports - Research | 3 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 5 |
Postsecondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Michigan | 5 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Bernstein, Jeffrey L.; Deljevic, Austin N.; Kindred, Emily K.; Krochmalny, Elizabeth M.; Somerville, Annie – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
The ability to integrate learning--to make connections across classes or even within a single class--is integral to students becoming better learners, and to growing their capacity to perform as civic actors. We discuss an upper-level Campaigns and Elections class in which the course structure and assignments were set up to encourage students to…
Descriptors: College Students, Political Science, Political Campaigns, Elections
Bernstein, Jeffrey L.; Allen, Brooke Thomas – Journal of Political Science Education, 2013
Political Science research methods courses face two problems. First is what to cover, as there are too many techniques to explore in any one course. Second is dealing with student anxiety around quantitative material. We explore a novel way to approach these issues. Our students began by writing a qualitative paper. They followed with a term…
Descriptors: Political Science, Research Methodology, Courses, Qualitative Research
Kramer, Daniel Boyd; Schechter, Michael G. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2011
This article seeks to contribute to the evolving literature on the scholarship of teaching and learning. We do this by describing and then reflecting on what we have learned from a year-long freshman applied research seminar, "International Affairs Knowledge and U.S. Foreign Policy Opinions." After surveying the literature on public…
Descriptors: Scholarship, College Instruction, Learning, College Freshmen
Arbitter, Benjamin; Bach, Hannah; Berkowitz, Michael; Brown, Teresa; Krebs, Kara – Journal of Political Science Education, 2011
While there is considerable information about the knowledge (or lack thereof) and views, informed or not, of U.S. citizens, and there are many studies that correlate levels of education with foreign policy views, this study was intended to fill a number of gaps in the literature by connecting knowledge of international affairs and sources of that…
Descriptors: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Undergraduate Students, Educational Innovation
Bernstein, Jeffrey L. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2008
I examine the impact of simulations on student learning and on the growth of civic competence in an introductory American government class. By civic competence, I refer to an individual's skill and ability to make sense of vast amounts of political information; to work with others (and in civil opposition to other people's ideas) where…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), Civics, Skill Development, Simulation