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Making their work count: Political Science students improve Wikipedia

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Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education Through its ongoing partnership with Wiki Education , MPSA has been helping political science and policy students engage with subject content in meaningful and lasting ways all while improving the world’s access to reliable knowledge in these very fields.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

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By: Dr. Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education For the past several years, MPSA has been partnering with Wiki Education to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of topics related to Political Science. Thus far, Wiki Education has worked with 164 courses in the field of Political Science.

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Her ongoing work includes a co-edited volume on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, and how research methods are used in political science scholarship. for work, education, or commerce. Dr. Sarah E.

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Elizabeth Dorssom Receives the 2024 Michael Brintnall Teaching and Learning Award

Political Science Now

Dr. Elizabeth Dorssom is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lincoln University of Missouri where she regularly teaches courses on American National Government, American State and Local Government, Public Policy and Administration, and Research Methodology.

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Adjusting/Adapting Assignments for Flexibility and Engagement in Online Instruction

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California State University, Chico, Political Science Online instruction, especially with students who are unfamiliar with online learning, requires balancing teaching across the familiar to the unfamiliar so that assignments are challenging but also support/reinforce what students already know. By Diane E. Schmidt, Ph.D.,

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Teaching Tactics: A Simple Hack for Maintaining Personal Connections to Students

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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina This blog was originally published by the Incubator for Teaching Innovation at the College of Arts and Sciences/University of South Carolina: [link]. By Matthew Charles Wilson, Ph.D., Example email that students will receive.

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Assorted Tips for Student Theses (in My Department and Perhaps Yours)

Steven V. Miller

This will be a periodically updated blog post of things I want to tell students in my department (and maybe yours too) as they start writing their research papers. 1 I have assorted things on my blog that try to teach students assorted things, but I also need something a bit more tailored to students in my current department.