Political Science Educator

Simulations are a critical component of teaching in Political Science (Asal and Blake 2006; Asal, Raymond, and Usherwood 2015). Indeed, in 2012 Jeffrey Bernstein identified simulations as a ‘signatu...

Do students master and retain course content and develop collaboration skills differently through in-person and online simulation classes? This paper explores whether students retain content learned t...

What information can I trust? What information am I supposed to put in my paper? These are questions students often ask instructors (or their classmates). At the same time, instructors may wonder how ...

Mobilizing people is hard as the literature shows. However, the challenge of mobilization is not always clear to students. The collective action problem and challenges of risk can be difficult t...

In this paper, we introduce a new, innovative, open-access textbook geared specifically toward teaching political science and public policy students quantitative research methods. The book represents ...

The use of popular culture as a teaching tool is often overlooked in teaching introductory-level political science courses. In recent years, advocacy for the inclusion of popular culture has increased...

Utilize 10+ years of experience in high school education, we explain from an insider's perspective how changes in evaluations and instruction at the K-12 levels have altered what students learn and th...

This short paper outlines a structured approach to triangulate between what we want students to learn, what they need to accomplish to achieve these goals, and what can (or cannot) be done within the ...

This paper discusses the design and outcomes of a pilot embedded librarian initiative at a historically black college university (HBCU) in Washington, DC that transpired in a research methods course i...