How Social science research can improve teaching

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 621-629

  King, Gary ^a   Sen, Maya ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879585790     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: 15375935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049096513000619     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Barab, Sasha A., and Thomas M. Duffy. 2000. "From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice." Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments 1: 25-55.
2. Burn, Shawn M. 1991. "Social Psychology and the Stimulation of Recycling Behaviors: The Block Leader Approach." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 21 (8): 611-29.
3. Cacioppo, John T., James H. Fowler, and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2009. "Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 97 (6): 977.
4. Centola, Damon. 2010. "The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment." Science 329 (5996): 1194-197.
5. Chi, Michelene T., Nicolas DeLeeuw, Mei-Hung Chiu, and Christian Lavancher. 1994. "Eliciting Self-Explanations Improves Understanding." Cognitive Science 18 (3): 439-77.
6. Chingos, Matthew M. 2013. "Class Size and Student Outcomes: Research and Policy Implications." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 32 (2): 911-38.
7. Christakis, Nicholas A., and James H. Fowler. 2007. "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 years." New England Journal of Medicine 357 (4): 370-79.
8. Christakis, Nicholas A., and James H. Fowler. 2008. "The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network." New England Journal of Medicine 358 (21): 2249-258.
9. Crouch, Catherine H., and Eric Mazur. 2001. "Peer Instruction: Ten Years of Experience and Results." American Journal of Physics 69: 970.
10. Dawson, Shane. 2006. "A Study of the Relationship between Student Communication Interaction and Sense of Community." The Internet and Higher Education 9 (3): 153-62.
11. DeSchryver, M., P. Mishra, M. Koehler, and A. P. Francis. 2009. Moodle vs. Face-book: Does Using Facebook for Discussions in an Online Course Enhance Perceived Social Presence and Student Interaction? In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference, Chesapeake, VA, pp. 329-336.
12. Deslauriers, Louis, Ellen Schelew, and Carl Wieman. 2011. "Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class." Science 332 (6031): 862.
13. Dihoff, Roberta E., Gary M. Brosvic, and Michael L. Epstein. 2003. "The Role of Feedback during Academic Testing: The Delay Retention Effect Revisited." Psychological Record 53 (4): 533-48.
14. Dihoff, Roberta E., Gary M. Brosvic, and Michael L. Epstein. 2004. "Provision of Feedback during Preparation for Academic Testing: Learning Is Enhanced by Immediate but not Delayed Feedback." Psychological Record 54 (2): 207-32.
15. DiPrete, Thomas A., Andrew Gelman, Tyler McCormick, Julien Teitler, and Tian Zheng. 2011. "Segregation in Social Networks Based on Acquaintanceship and Trust." American Journal of Sociology 116 (4): 1234-83.
16. Dubner, Stephen J., and Steven D. Levitt. 2006. "Freakonomics: A Star Is Made." New York Times Magazine, May 7.
17. Ende, Jack. 1983. "Feedback in Clinical Medical Education." The Journal of the American Medical Association 250 (6): 777.
18. Fagen, Adam P., Catherine H. Crouch, and Eric Mazur. 2002. "Peer Instruction: Results from a Range of Classrooms." Physics Teacher 40 (4): 206-09.
19. Fowler, James H., and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2008. "The Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network." BMJ: British Medical Journal 337: a2338.
20. Garrison, D. Randy, Terry Anderson, and Walter Archer. 1999. "Critical Inquiry in a Text-Based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education." The Internet and Higher Education 2 (2-3): 87-105.
21. Gerber, Alan S., Donald P. Green, and Christopher W. Larimer. 2008. "Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment." American Political Science Review 102 (01): 33-48.
22. Golde, Michael F., Christine L. McCreary, and Randi Koeske. 2006. "Peer Instruction in the General Chemistry Laboratory: Assessment of Student Learning." Journal of Chemical Education 83 (5): 804.
23. Graff, Martin. 2003. "Individual Differences in Sense of Classroom Community in a Blended Learning Environment." Journal of Educational Media 28 (2-3): 203-10.
24. Hattie, John, and Helen Timperley. 2007. "The Power of Feedback." Review of Educational Research 77 (1): 81.
25. Hodder, R. V., R. N. Rivington, L. E. Calcutt, and I. R. Hart. 1989. "The Effectiveness of Immediate Feedback during the Objective Structured Clinical Examination." Medical Education 23 (2): 184-88.
26. Killingsworth, Matthew A., and Daniel T. Gilbert. 2010. "A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind." Science 330 (6006): 932-32.
27. King, Gary, and Maya Sen. 2013. "The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities." PS: Political Science and Politics 46 (1): 81-89.
28. Konvalinka, I., D. Xygalatas, J. Bulbulia, U. Schjødt, E. M. Jegindø, S. Wallot, G. Van Orden, and A. Roepstorff. 2011. "Synchronized Arousal between Performers and Related Spectators in a Fire-Walking Ritual." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (20): 8514.
29. Lim, Chaeyoon, and Robert D. Putnam. 2010. "Religion, Social Networks, and Life Satisfaction." American Sociological Review 75 (6): 914-33.
30. Mayer, Richard E. 2003. "The Promise of Multimedia Learning: Using the Same Instructional Design Methods across Different Media." Learning and Instruction 13 (2): 125-39.
31. Mazur, Eric. 1997. Peer Instruction: A User's Manual. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
32. McDermott, Rose, James H. Fowler, and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2009. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else Is Doing It Too: Social Network Effects on Divorce in a Longitudinal Sample Followed for 32 Years." Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1490708
33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1490708.
34. Morse, Gardiner. 2012. "The Science behind the Smile: An Interview with Daniel Gilbert by Gardiner Morse." Harvard Business Review, January-February: 84-90.
35. Pachucki, Mark A., Paul F. Jacques, and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2011. "Social Network Concordance in Food Choice among Spouses, Friends, and Siblings." American Journal of Public Health 101 (11): 2170.
36. Porter, Leo, Cynthia Bailey Lee, Beth Simon, and Daniel Zingaro. 2011. Peer Instruction: Do Students Really Learn from Peer Discussion in Computing? In Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Computing Education Research, 45-52. ACM.
37. Rao, Sumangala P., and Stephen E. DiCarlo. 2000. "Peer Instruction Improves Performance on Quizzes." Advances in Physiology Education 24 (1): 51-55.
38. Rosenquist, J. Niels, Joanne Murabito, James H. Fowler, and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2010. "The Spread of Alcohol Consumption Behavior in a Large Social Network." Annals of Internal Medicine 152 (7): 426.
39. Rovai, Alfred P. 2003. "The Relationships of Communicator Style, Personality-Based Learning Style, and Classroom Community among Online Graduate Students." The Internet and Higher Education 6 (4): 347-63.
40. Shea, Peter. 2006. "A Study of Students' Sense of Learning Community in Online Environments." Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks 10 (1): 35-44.
41. Summers, Jessica J., and Marilla D. Svinicki. 2007. "Investigating Classroom Community in Higher Education." Learning and Individual Differences 17 (1): 55-67.
42. Sweet, M., and L. K. Michaelsen. 2012. Team-Based Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Group Work That Works to Generate Critical Thinking and Engagement. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
43. VanderWeele, Tyler J. 2011. "Sensitivity Analysis for Contagion Effects in Social Networks." Sociological Methods &Research 40 (2): 240-55.
44. VanLehn, Kurt, Arthur C. Graesser, G. Tanner Jackson, Pamela Jordan, Andrew Olney, and Carolyn P. Rosé. 2007. "When Are Tutorial Dialogues More Effective than Reading?" Cognitive Science 31 (1): 3-62.
45. Whitehurst, Grover (Russ). 2010. "Education Research: Past, Present, and Future." Policy Perspectives, 1-12. https://www.wested.org/cs/we/ views/rs/1006.
46. Wiltermuth, Scott S., and Chip Heath. 2009. "Synchrony and Cooperation." Psychological Science 20 (1): 1.