GOV 50: Introduction to Political Science Research Methods

This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts. It has students use the statistical software SPSS and scaffolding like sentence frames and graphic organizers to learn about scatterplots, correlation and linear regression...

These lectures on theories, game theory, and measurement provide an interactive way to teach concepts. The attached power points use concept maps, graphic organizers, and fill-in-the-blanks to make teaching political science methods more interactive and...

Students' own survey data can provide instructors an engaging, accessible tool for teaching students methods concepts. At the beginning of the semester, students took a survey that asked a variety of mundane and absurd questions. The data from the survey...