Leanne C Powner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leanne C Powner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leanne C |
| FAMILY NAME | Powner |
| SIGNATURE | POWNER L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Empirical Research and Writing
Part I: The Preliminaries Chapter 1: From Research Topic to Research Question Doing Social Science Research Questions and This Course's Research Project From Research Topic to Research Question Finding and Refining a Research Question Writing Your Paper Summary Key Terms Chapter 2: From Research Question to Theory to Hypothesis What Is a Theory? From Question to Theory From Theory to Hypothesis Writing Your Theory Section Summary Key Terms Part I…
Empirical Research and Writing
Principles of International Politics
Evaluating Hypotheses about Active Learning
We assess the relative effectiveness of two different active learning complements to traditional lecture-based learning. Using a large introductory class at a large public university, we conducted an experiment designed to evaluate whether active learning approaches provide a significant improvement in a student's short-term retention of material over only attending a standard large lecture. In this Introduction to World Politics class, each teac…
Teaching the Scientific Method in the Active Learning Classroom
Undergraduate classroom presentations of the scientific method in the social sciences usually involve a lecture on the nature of the scientific enterprise: the discovery of the “truth” (if such a thing even exists) about the relationship between some set of concepts, events, or phenomena by means of generating falsifiable hypotheses and testing them against data. The tendency of faculty, however understandable, to convert the presentation into an…
Evaluating Hypotheses about Active Learning
We assess the relative effectiveness of two different active learning complements to traditional lecture-based learning. Using a large introductory class at a large public university, we conducted an experiment designed to evaluate whether active learning approaches provide a significant improvement in a student's short-term retention of material over only attending a standard large lecture. In this Introduction to World Politics class, each teac…
Teaching the Scientific Method in the Active Learning Classroom
Undergraduate classroom presentations of the scientific method in the social sciences usually involve a lecture on the nature of the scientific enterprise: the discovery of the “truth” (if such a thing even exists) about the relationship between some set of concepts, events, or phenomena by means of generating falsifiable hypotheses and testing them against data. The tendency of faculty, however understandable, to convert the presentation into an…
Teaching the Scientific Method in the Active Learning Classroom
Undergraduate classroom presentations of the scientific method in the social sciences usually involve a lecture on the nature of the scientific enterprise: the discovery of the “truth” (if such a thing even exists) about the relationship between some set of concepts, events, or phenomena by means of generating falsifiable hypotheses and testing them against data. The tendency of faculty, however understandable, to convert the presentation into an…
Evaluating Hypotheses about Active Learning
We assess the relative effectiveness of two different active learning complements to traditional lecture-based learning. Using a large introductory class at a large public university, we conducted an experiment designed to evaluate whether active learning approaches provide a significant improvement in a student's short-term retention of material over only attending a standard large lecture. In this Introduction to World Politics class, each teac…
Principles of International Politics
Empirical Research and Writing
Empirical Research and Writing
Part I: The Preliminaries Chapter 1: From Research Topic to Research Question Doing Social Science Research Questions and This Course's Research Project From Research Topic to Research Question Finding and Refining a Research Question Writing Your Paper Summary Key Terms Chapter 2: From Research Question to Theory to Hypothesis What Is a Theory? From Question to Theory From Theory to Hypothesis Writing Your Theory Section Summary Key Terms Part I…
Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Active learning (machine learning (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Academic writing (1 work) · Academic Writing and Publishing (1 work) · Adaptation (eye (1 work)