This insightful book delivers a wealth of innovative ideas, models, examples, and advice for teaching experimental political science in the classroom and beyond, emphasising that teaching experimental research is necessary to prepare students to succeed as researchers, practitioners, active citizens and civic leaders. It illustrates how teaching experimental methods sparks students curiosity by allowing them to ask and answer questions about the world they live in.
With a core focus on successfully engaging a diverse range of students at all levels, this book includes a variety of approaches from contributing authors who are leading scholars in their field. Chapters provide both new and experienced teachers with concrete guidance on how to: facilitate student-designed survey experiments, use workbooks and templates to overcome mathematical and writing anxiety; use mock Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviews to teach students about the ethics of experimental research; follow an apprenticeship model to teach students to carry out their own lab experiments; and train students to go out into the field. Proposed models of teaching are supported throughout by the latest empirical research on the science of learning.
Teaching Experimental Political Science will be a key resource for faculty and staff working across a variety of educational contexts including political science, international relations, international politics, domestic politics, public administration and public policy.
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The infectious enthusiasm with which the authors convey their teaching techniques and experiences draws the reader in, much as the hands-on pedagogy of experimental political science draws in students who might otherwise be reluctant to learn about research methods. Readers will find a wealth of innovative teaching ideas, but mainly they will be struck by the authors deep commitment to making political science research relevant and meaningful to students from all walks of life. -- Donald P. Green, Columbia University, US This essential volume demonstrates how to bring one of the most important developments in social sciencethe experimental revolutionto the classroom. While teaching and research are often thought to be at odds, this book demonstrates that they canand shouldgo together. Instructors will benefit from the concrete examples and advice; their students will benefit from being taught state of the art research methods. We all will benefit from a more informed citizenry. -- David E. Campbell, University of Notre Dame, US
Contents:Introduction: innovative approaches to teaching experimentalmethods in the political science classroom 1Elizabeth A. Bennion1 Experiments for all! Introducing freshmen to socialscience research using innovative experiments 16Debra Leiter and Beth Miller Vonnahme2 Included and set up to succeed: an evidence-basedapproach to teaching experiments in the diverse classroom 33Elaine K. Denny and Reagan Bijou3 Engaging students as researchers: the value of aninquiry-based one-semester survey experiment 52Jeffrey L. Bernstein4 Using class-designed survey experiments to teach datacollection, analysis, and reporting protocols 66Jennifer Bachner5 Using templates to make survey experiments accessible tomath-anxious students 85Eric Loepp6 Nurturing problem-solvers: using workbooks to teachexperiments in international development 105Lindsay R. Dolan7 Incorporating experimental methods training into yourpolitical science courses: a practical, topic-informed approach 124Angie Bos and Bas van Doorn8 From concept to implementation: engaging studentresearchers in get-out-the-vote field experiments 137Melissa R. Michelson and Mara Ostfeld9 Train the trainer: a field experiment workshop forgraduate students and faculty 155Elizabeth I. Dorssom10 Teaching lab experiments using an apprenticeship model 177Rose McDermott11 Using mock institutional review boards to teach the ethicsof experimental research 194Christopher B. Mann12 When things go wrong in the lab: teaching newexperimenters to anticipate and adapt to the unexpected 212Jonathan Rogers13 Creating an experimental lab on your campus 226Kim Fridkin, Manuel Gutierrez, Trudy Horsting, andAlexandra M. WilliamsIndex
Edited by Elizabeth A. Bennion, Chancellors Professor of Political Science and Director of Community Engagement, Indiana University South Bend, US
