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MIRA Guest Speaker

This activity brings the real world into the classroom. Eva Millona visited GOV98mg to talk about The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA).

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Speed Dating Topic Sentences

This activity, created by Justin Gest, involves learning through "speed dating." The activity focuses on how to craft excellent topic sentences while considering the application of the course's theoretical ideas.

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Prisoner's Dilemma Game

Is it better to cooperate or defect? In this game, students participate in a real life prisoner's dilemma game.

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classroom games.pdf

Parallel Discussions about Decision-Making

This group discussion format can be used in a week that covers several big concepts, each of which can be discussed along a similar ("parallel") sequence of discussion questions. The concepts in this particular class are: Wisdom of crowds, Heuristic decision-making, Groupthink, and Cooperation.

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Explaining Political Attitudes

Assigned debates work well for weeks where several competing theoretical approaches are covered. This debate involves competing theories on approaches to explaining political attitudes.

Using Student Data to Teach Research Methods

Students' own survey data can provide instructors an engaging, accessible tool for teaching students methods concepts.

survey questions.pdf

questionnaire.pdf

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Theories and Measurement

These lectures on theories, game theory, and measurement provide an interactive way to teach concepts.

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Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression

This worksheet provides scaffolding as students practice new methods concepts.

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handout answers.pdf

Unusual Asian Disease Outbreak

There has been an outbreak of an unusual Asian disease. Which policy is best based on the scientific estimations of how many people will be saved? This activity uses this example with poll everywhere (polleverywhere.com) technology to demonstrate framing and prospect theory.

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The Minimal Group Paradigm

Are people predisposed to favor their own groups at the expense of others, even when the group distinction is completely arbitrary? This activity replicates, more or less, the exact experiment used by Henri Tajfel to demonstrate the "minimal group paradigm" used in Social Identity Theory.

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matrix instructions.pdf

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