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Audiences and Outcomes in Online and Traditional American Government Classes: A Comparative Two-Year Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Carol S. Botsch  and
Robert E. Botsch
Carol S. Botsch
Affiliation:
Assistant professor of political science at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, where she teaches public administration, political theory, and judicial politics courses, as well as American government. She has developed web-based courses in public personnel administration and public policy. She is coeditor of the web-based encyclopedia African-Americans and South Carolina, which can be found at .
Robert E. Botsch
Affiliation:
Professor of political science at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, where he teaches research methods, Southern politics, public opinion, and other courses in addition to American government. In 1988, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named him as South Carolina Professor of the Year and as one of 10 Gold Medal winners in the nation.
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The objective of this article is to report differences we have found in teaching “American National Government” via the web and in a traditional lecture/discussion format. Since beginning this quasiexperimental field study in late 1997, we have gathered a variety of comparative data concerning students' characteristics and their changes in political knowledge and attitudes—things that are important to all of us who labor teaching American government in hopes of nurturing healthy citizens.

Type
Research Article
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 135 - 141
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© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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