Teaching Experimental Political Science

Edited by Elizabeth A. Bennion, Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science and Director of Community Engagement, Indiana University South Bend, US

Contents:

Introduction: innovative approaches to teaching experimental
methods in the political science classroom 1
Elizabeth A. Bennion
1 Experiments for all! Introducing freshmen to social
science research using innovative experiments 16
Debra Leiter and Beth Miller Vonnahme
2 Included and set up to succeed: an evidence-based
approach to teaching experiments in the diverse classroom 33
Elaine K. Denny and Reagan Bijou
3 Engaging students as researchers: the value of an
inquiry-based one-semester survey experiment 52
Jeffrey L. Bernstein
4 Using class-designed survey experiments to teach data
collection, analysis, and reporting protocols 66
Jennifer Bachner
5 Using templates to make survey experiments accessible to
math-anxious students 85
Eric Loepp
6 Nurturing problem-solvers: using workbooks to teach
experiments in international development 105
Lindsay R. Dolan
7 Incorporating experimental methods training into your
political science courses: a practical, topic-informed approach 124
Angie Bos and Bas van Doorn
8 From concept to implementation: engaging student
researchers in get-out-the-vote field experiments 137
Melissa R. Michelson and Mara Ostfeld
9 Train the trainer: a field experiment workshop for
graduate students and faculty 155
Elizabeth I. Dorssom
10 Teaching lab experiments using an apprenticeship model 177
Rose McDermott
11 Using mock institutional review boards to teach the ethics
of experimental research 194
Christopher B. Mann
12 When things go wrong in the lab: teaching new
experimenters to anticipate and adapt to the unexpected 212
Jonathan Rogers
13 Creating an experimental lab on your campus 226
Kim Fridkin, Manuel Gutierrez, Trudy Horsting, and
Alexandra M. Williams

Index