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

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Feeley
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Peer Instruction ◽  
Attitudes Toward Learning ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Engaging students as co-producers: A critical reflection on the policy commission model

Politics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Blair ◽  
Steven Griggs ◽  
Eleanor Mackillop
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

The teaching of political science has a tendency towards traditional classroom-based learning environments. This article describes the development of an innovative model of student learning that takes place outside the bounded nature of the established curriculum through the creation of a Policy Commission. The Policy Commission established an innovative ‘community of action’ that challenged traditional perceptions of the lone student as a producer of knowledge. This article describes the work of the Policy Commission, which engaged students in the act of ‘doing Politics’ and discusses the impact that it had on student learning. The article examines the potential of the Policy Commission model to offer a new form of learning.

MODIFIKASI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN PROBLEM POSING DENGAN STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN TUGAS DAN PAKSA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lita Amalia ◽  
Alda Dwiyana Putri ◽  
Alfajri Mairizki Nurfansyah
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Problem Posing ◽  
Reasoning Skills ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Answering Questions

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Problem Posing learning model with Task and Forced Strategy. As for the background of this writing is because of difficulties in understanding the material and also lack of enthusiasm of students in learning the material so that the impact on student learning outcomes is still low. The low student learning outcomes are, of course, many factors, one of which is the problem of applying a learning model that is still teacher-centered, so students tend to be passive. For this reason, the teacher can use the Problem Posing learning model that is modified by the task and force strategy (Task and Forced). Problem Posing learning model is a learning model that requires students to develop their systematic reasoning skills in making questions and answering questions. While the task and force strategy (Task and Forced) is a learning strategy that has little effect on students to complete the task until it is completed and on time to avoid the punishment given by the teacher as a consequence. So that students will be motivated in listening, understanding the material delivered and doing assignments on time. By combining this model and strategy can be a solution so that the learning process becomes quality.

Twin Studies and Politics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levente Littvay
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Behavioral Genetics ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Genetic Transmission ◽  
The Social ◽  
Direction Of Causation ◽  
Social Part ◽  
The Impact

As recently as 2005, John Alford and colleagues surprised political science with their twin study that found empirical evidence of the genetic transmission of political attitudes and behaviors. Reactions in the field were mixed, but one thing is for sure: it is not time to mourn the social part of the social sciences. Genetics is not the deterministic mechanism that social scientists often assume it to be. No specific part of DNA is responsible for anything but minute, indirect effects on political orientations. Genes express themselves differently in different contexts, suggesting that the political phenomenon behavioral political scientists take for granted may be quite volatile; hence, the impact of genetics is also much less stable in its foundations than initially assumed. Twin studies can offer a unique and powerful avenue to study these behavioral processes as they are more powerful than cross-sectional (or even longitudinal) studies not only for understanding heritability but also for asserting the direction of causation, the social (and, of course, genetic) pathways that explain how political phenomena are related to each other. This chapter aims to take the reader through this journey that political science has gone through over the past decade and a half and point to the synergies behavioral political science and behavioral genetics offer to the advancement of the discipline.

Integrating Women's Studies in a Political Science Curriculum

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Leta A. Moniz
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Impact

Integrating Women's Studies with any curriculum, political science or otherwise, is a formidable task. And like most changes in curriculum, the integration of Women's Studies material has not come about in orderly fashion. There are some dimensions to Women's Studies integration, however, that set it apart from other curriculum change.The thrust of Women's Studies vis a vis any discipline is to revise and reinterpret that discipline from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy has argued that traditional methodologies, theories, and manifest analyses have contained a patriarchal bias which has excluded the impact of women from the intellectual evolution of humankind. Thus, on the discipline and on the academy itself, the very premise of Women's Studies makes demands which are far-reaching and threatening to establishment doctrine.

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