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Preaching what we practice: bringing scope and methods back in / Centellas, Miguel

Centellas, Miguel	Journal Article
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2011.

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Recent discussions of teaching research methods have focused on understanding the relationship between methods courses and the broader discipline, including the need to integrate qualitative methods and other approaches beyond the traditional statistical approaches still common in the majority of undergraduate research methods courses. This article contributes to this conversation by arguing that the basic elements of research design and qualitative techniques should be integrated into substantive (or "non-methods") courses across the discipline. To accomplish this aim, I offer a brief outline of methodological benchmark skills-drawn from the pool of skills necessary for a successful thesis-that can be taught in various courses across the discipline through a traditional assignment: the semester research paper.

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Qualitative Methods ; Teaching Research Methods

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Qualitative Replication as a Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Research Methods / Becker, Megan

Becker, Megan	Journal Article
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The importance of replication has been a major matter of discussion among political scientists for decades. However, in the past five years, the issue has gained greater traction, with many major journals adopting official standards for Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT). At the same time, scholars suggest the pivotal role that replication might play in methods training for students. Unfortunately, these conversations have been limited in that they emphasize quantitative methods and training of graduate students. This article seeks to fill this gap by offering commentary on the author’s experience in introducing a qualitative replication project in an upper-division undergraduate course. The students in the course replicated Ross’s (2004) influential article on the “resource curse,” but the assignment framework can be adopted for various topics and contexts.

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Teaching Research Methods ; Qualitative Replication ; Pedagogical Approach

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