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Raising the Stakes on a Political Science Major Field Test: Evidence From a New Capstone Course By John LaForest Phillips, Austin Peay State University Using a major field test (MFT) is a common method of […]

The Journal Club Module: A Co-Learning Tactic for Demystifying Academic Research and Building Classroom Culture in Undergraduate Courses By Nancy B. Arrington and Brooksley L. Pruitt, California Polytechnic State University The Journal Club Module (JCM) […]

Using Strategic Games to Illustrate Environmental Policy Concepts for Undergraduates By Elizabeth Baldwin and Minwoo Ahn, University of Arizona Games are useful to help students learn key concepts in environmental policy. Thus, using games is […]

Teaching U.S. Constitutional Design: The Case of the “Genovian Revolution” By Ian G. Anson, University of Maryland Baltimore County In the modern American politics classroom, ideological and partisan conflict have the capacity to interfere with […]

Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game By Michelle M. Buehlmann, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks In Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game, Dr. Buehlmann argues that government shutdowns are the crisis in […]

Pedagogy and the Textbook in Political Science By Noele Crossley, University College London How can textbooks be deployed in a way that boosts active learning and critical thinking? Noele Crossley draws on her experience of […]

Making Agreements With Friends: Using an Analogy to Teach Informal Agreements and Bargaining in International Relations Courses By Zachary Houser, Boise State University Making Agreements with Friends is an engaging problem-based learning activity that uses […]

An Examination of the Transformative Effect of Learning by Teaching Method in Human Rights Education By Defne Günay, and Zahide Melis Özün Çöllüoğlu, Yaşar University,  This study aims to examine the impact of participatory methodologies […]