Enhancing first-year politics teaching through an evaluation of the entry-level 'political literacy' of undergraduates at a 'new' and an 'old' university.
Enhancing first-year politics teaching through an evaluation of the entry-level 'political literacy' of undergraduates at a 'new' and an 'old' university.
Educators at the University of Southampton and Sheffield Hallam University have used an online questionnaire and follow up focus groups to establish how much students embarking on courses in business, management and politics know about current affairs and to explore some of the pedagogic and procedural issues associated with research of this kind. The project has confirmed that while the ‘political literacy’ of politics students may be greater than that of other students, if designed with care such projects can been used to stimulate interest amongst students in general. In other words, they can serve a variety of purposes including those of generating research data, contributing to educational resources and motivating students.
political literacy, online questionnaire, focus group, student interest and motivation
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Ottewill, Roger
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Chandler, Jim
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Long, Peter
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Wall, Ann
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2005
Ottewill, Roger
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Chandler, Jim
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Long, Peter
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Ottewill, Roger, Chandler, Jim, Long, Peter and Wall, Ann
(2005)
Enhancing first-year politics teaching through an evaluation of the entry-level 'political literacy' of undergraduates at a 'new' and an 'old' university.
Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2 (1), .
Abstract
Educators at the University of Southampton and Sheffield Hallam University have used an online questionnaire and follow up focus groups to establish how much students embarking on courses in business, management and politics know about current affairs and to explore some of the pedagogic and procedural issues associated with research of this kind. The project has confirmed that while the ‘political literacy’ of politics students may be greater than that of other students, if designed with care such projects can been used to stimulate interest amongst students in general. In other words, they can serve a variety of purposes including those of generating research data, contributing to educational resources and motivating students.
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Published date: 2005
Keywords:
political literacy, online questionnaire, focus group, student interest and motivation
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Local EPrints ID: 19132
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/19132
ISSN: 1740-5866
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Roger Ottewill
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Jim Chandler
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Peter Long
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Ann Wall
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