Accreditation
Date of this Version
2014
Document Type
Article
Abstract
ACE 10 Question
“What can the department be doing better to train our students in the skills needed to be good political scientists?”
We have determined that the ability to do research and all of the skills that entails, including
• understanding the substantive literature and relevant issues
• understanding appropriate theory to be able to come up with a viable research question and hypothesis
• the ability to use appropriate research sources and methods to test the hypothesis
• the ability to make a coherent argument and support it with evidence by analyzing the data and interpreting the results
• drawing proper conclusions
• organizing the paper effectively and writing clearly.
Student Work
Method of Analysis
Findings
Assessment Form and Example
Improving ACE 10 Learning
Comments
For Achievement—Centered Education (ACE 10) Faculty Inquiry Project (2013-14), University of Nebraska-Lincoln