SSRN APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference

1.

Introducing the Literature Grid: Helping Undergraduates Consistently Produce Quality Literature Reviews

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Peter Rocco Yacobucci

SUNY Buffalo State College

Downloads 971

2.

The Common Mistakes Students Make When Crafting Research Questions

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2012

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Jennifer Bachner

Johns Hopkins University

Downloads 244

3.

Problems Everywhere? Strengths and Challenges of a Problem-Based Learning Approach in European Studies

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Heidi Maurer and C. Neuhold

Maastricht University and Maastricht University

Downloads 204

4.

Teaching Active Learning Strategies to Graduate Students

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2012

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Shannon Scotece

SUNY University at Albany

Downloads 154

5.

Integrating Ebook Readings into Class Through the Course Management System: A Pilot Study

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Mara Degnan Rojeski

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 95

6.

Team-Based Learning in Political Science Research Methods Courses

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Andreas Broscheid

James Madison University

Downloads 87

7.

#Poli30242 Psephology Matters and Elections Count! Using New Social Media to Teach Electoral Politics in the UK

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Andrew Russell

University of Manchester

Downloads 86

8.

The Content of Capstone Experiences: Determining Best Practices in Assessing the Culmination of Student Learning

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2012

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Jill Abraham Hummer

Wilson College

Downloads 85

9.

Social Entrepreneurship and Civic Engagement

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2014

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Nanette S. Levinson

American University - School of International Service

Downloads 84

10.

Assessing the Political Science Capstone Course: A Study at Salem State University

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Daniel Mulcare

Salem State University

Downloads 81

11.

UN Security Council Simulation

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Nathan Zook and Jennifer Haydel

Montgomery College and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 79

12.

Politics and Public Budget: Agency and Legislative Decision-Making Strategies

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Peter J. Bergerson

Florida Gulf Coast University

Downloads 74

13.

Is an Abstract Game or a Role-Play Simulation Better to Explore Anarchy, Cooperation, and Conflict in World Politics?

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Mary McCarthy

Drake University

Downloads 72

14.

The Impact of Peer Instruction Pedagogy and Clicker Technology On Student Learning and Attitudes Toward Learning in a Large Upper-Division Political Science Course

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2012

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Maureen Feeley

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Downloads 72

15.

Institutionalizing Community Engagement: A Benchmark Study of Commitment and Implementation Structures

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Karen Brinkley, Kelly Ellenburg and David W. Schumann

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Downloads 71

16.

Approaching Undergraduate Methods Courses Through Skills-Based Learning: Integrating Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Effective Presentation into the Curriculum

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Margaret Commins

Queens University of Charlotte

Downloads 68

17.

Get Out of the Way! How a Simulation Changed How I Think About Teaching, Turned on My Students, and Ruined My Other Classes

2012 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Feb 2012

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John D. Wilkerson

University of Washington

Downloads 65

18.

Teaching Urban Politics Through Baltimore City Elections

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2014

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John Bullock

Towson University

Downloads 65

19.

A terrible beauty is born: Teaching about Identity Salience and Conflict

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Victor Asal

State University of New York at Albany

Downloads 64

20.

Bringing the Mountain to Students: Teaching Political Theory

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2012

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Chris Stangl

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 61

21.

Embedding Undergraduate Student Research Experiences in the Community College Curriculum

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2012

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Mark Johnson

Minnesota State Community and Technical College

Downloads 61

22.

Presenting Intolerance to Teach Tolerance

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2012

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Pia Knigge and Edin Mujkic

Auburn Montgomery and Auburn Montgomery

Downloads 56

23.

The Perils and the Promises of New Media in the Political Science Classroom

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Jonathan Cope

College of Staten Island, CUNY

Downloads 54

24.

Political Theater? The Value of Improvisation and Game-Playing

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Jon Ross

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 50

25.

Practicing Politics: Teaching Introductory Politics Courses Through a Theoretical Lens

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2012

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Michael Nordquist and Ashley Biser

Albertus Magnus College and Ohio Wesleyan University

Downloads 48

26.

Teaching International Crises Through Online Simulations

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Bidisha Biswas

Western Washington University - College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Downloads 48

27.

Calling All Citizens! Understanding the Value and Need for a Substantive Civic Knowledge

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2012

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Laura Schneider and Melissa J. Buehler

Grand Valley State University - Department of Political Science and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 47

28.

Political Efficacy and Introductory Political Science Course: Findings from a Survey of a Large Public University

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Miguel Centellas and Cy Rosenblatt

University of Mississippi and University of Mississippi - Department of Political Science

Downloads 44

29.

Teaching Within, Against, and Outside the Canon: Strategies for Incorporating Diversity in Core Political Theory Courses

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2012

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Sarah X. Pemberton

Ohio University

Downloads 43

30.

What are We Writing About? The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Political Science

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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John Craig

Higher Education Academy

Downloads 42

31.

Community Colleges: Enhancing Opportunity or Reinforcing Disadvantage?

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2012

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James Hedrick

Rice University

Downloads 41

32.

Civic Engagement Through an Entrepreneurial- Experiential Learning Model Applied in the Political Science Classroom

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Nathan Conroy

Marquette University

Downloads 40

33.

Teaching Peace When Students Don't Know (About) War

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2012

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Jeannie Grussendorf

Georgia State University

Downloads 40

34.

Incourt: Using a Virtual Supreme Court to Enhance the Traditional Simulation Experience

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2012

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Daniel E. Smith

Northwest Missouri State University

Downloads 39

35.

Teaching Conflict Resolution in an Era of Interstate/Civil Conflicts

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Tina Mavrikos-Adamou

Hofstra University

Downloads 39

36.

The Tie that Binds: Exploring Community College Curriculum Design

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2012

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Bobbi Gentry and Erin G. Richards

Bridgewater College and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 38

37.

Using Calibrated Peer Review to Facilitate Writing Assignments in Large Political Science Classes

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2012

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Wendy Watson and John Ishiyama

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of North Texas

Downloads 37

38.

A Partnership for the Future: The Mutual Benefits of Undergraduate Research for Students and Administrators

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2012

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Candace C. Young and Adam Crews

Truman State University and University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 36

39.

Innovative Professors and the Civic-Minded Student

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2012

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Sonia Iwanek

Collin College

Downloads 36

40.

Political Science in the Apolitical Classroom

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Thomas Kolasa

Troy University

Downloads 36

41.

Teaching the Politics of Health Reform: History, Context, Resources

2012 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Feb 2012

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Sue Tolleson-Rinehart

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill

Downloads 36

42.

A Search for a New Way of Being in the Political Science Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy and Political Theory

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2012

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Kenneth Betsalel

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 35

43.

Navigating the EU: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Web-Based Tool to Make Students Better EU Learners and Citizens

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Herman Lelieveldt

University College Roosevelt/Utrecht University

Downloads 35

44.

Preliminary Findings on Implementing a New Learning Paradigm in Political Science

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2012

Accepted Paper Series

John F Settich

Benedictine College

Downloads 35

45.

Using a Virtual History Conference to Teach the Iraq War

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Bruce Gilley

Portland State University

Downloads 35

46.

Learning by Doing: Two Republican Approaches to Teaching Political Theory

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

David Selby

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Downloads 34

47.

Civic Engagement and Distance Learning

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Jeff Dense

Eastern Oregon University

Downloads 33

48.

Service Learning and Raising Awareness About People with Special Needs

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2012

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Aida Koci

South East European (SEE) University

Downloads 33

49.

The Effectiveness of Inter-institutional Collaboration: Designing and Conducting Effective Simulation of an ASEAN Plus Three Meeting

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Ivan Dinev Ivanov

University of Cincinnati

Downloads 33

50.

Incorporating a Comparative Perspective into Undergraduate American Constitutional Law Courses

APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Angela G. Narasimhan

Keuka College

Downloads 32

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