Teaching Resources Guide for Public Affairs and Administration

346 Pages·2007·2.09 MB·English

Teaching Resources Guide
for Public Affairs and
Administration
Marc Holzer, Editor
Teaching Resources Guide
for Public Affairs and
Administration

Editor
Marc Holzer
School of Public Affairs and Administration
Rutgers University - Campus at Newark

Associate Editor
Portia Diñoso
School of Public Affairs and Administration
Rutgers University - Campus at Newark

Contributors
Michelle Collins
Robert Friday
Chulwoo Kim
Sunjoo Kwak
Aroon Manoharan
Gautam Nayer
Alicia Schatteman
Mary Beth Vergara

This volume contains contributions by faculty and doctoral students at the School of Public Affairs
and Administration, Rutgers University - Campus at Newark.

Published by

National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
Washington, DC
www.naspaa.org

Website
http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/research.html

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ISBN 978-0-942942-07-1
Teaching Resources Guide
for Public Affairs and
Administration

Table of Contents

Introduction...................................................................................................................................1

Section I
Instructional Resources...................................................................................................................3

Section II
Academic Integrity...........................................................................................................................11

Section III
Cases for the Classroom.................................................................................................................25

Section IV
Syllabi..............................................................................................................................................55

Section V
Textbooks and Publishers...............................................................................................................63

Section VI
Simulations......................................................................................................................................305

Section VII
Teaching Statistics & Research Methods........................................................................................321

Introduction

Teaching is an essential aspect of programs in public affairs and administration. Our students look to
our faculties for substantive, enlivening courses. But effective pedagogy cannot be taken for granted.
Although faculty members are both producers and consumers of pedagogical innovations, beyond
the publication of textbooks those learning resources often enjoy only limited distribution. This
compendium is an effort to bring together a broad array of teaching and learning resources in public
affairs and administration, and to make each directly available via a web link.

Surprisingly, thousands of those resources are available to faculty in our field. Some have been
developed by university instructional centers and address common concerns, such as academic
integrity, course design, diversity, collaboration, testing, or new technologies. Many are drawn from
the work of colleagues in NASPAA-member institutions, offering cases, syllabi, and a broad range of
teaching resources pertinent to the public and non-profit sectors. Perhaps the largest set of
resources are those published texts that are the foundations for most of our course offerings.

This project was inspired by the Public Administration Teaching Roundtable, an informal group of
academics centered in the New York Metropolitan area that met regularly in the 1970s and 1980s to
discuss innovative means for enlivening the classroom. With the advent of Web-based links to
publications and other teaching resources, broader opportunities for disseminating such educational
innovations are now more "virtual." This Guide is intended as the first iteration in a new electronic
dialogue, or Roundtable, with annual revisions based on input from our large teaching community,
and perhaps a continuing web-based discussion.

Marc Holzer
School of Public Affairs and Administration
Rutgers University-Campus at Newark

Please email suggestions, updates, additions, and/or changes to
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Section I: Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources, which includes Teaching Techniques and Online Teaching Forum, offers a
wide range and variety of valuable resources for instructors. It covers how to design a course;
responding to a diverse student body; discussion; lecture; collaborative strategies; student learning
and its enhancement; writing assignments; testing and grading; instructional media and technology;
assessing student learning and teaching; T.A. training and development; viewpoints; and philosophy.

Instructional Resources

Teaching Techniques

Teaching Tips Index, Honolulu Community College
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm#technique
s
Data is sorted by the following topics:
• The First Day • Teaching organization
• Preparing a course syllabus • Human development
• Preparing a lesson plan • How people learn
• Teaching techniques • Paying attention to core academic and workplace
skills
• Course design • Motivating students
• Communication • Dealing with difficult behaviors
• Critical thinking • Dealing with stress
• Using questions effectively in teaching • Feel good about teaching
• Instructional assessment techniques

A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence, University of
California, Berkeley
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/
The suggestions included in this compendium, with few exceptions, are the contributions of more
than 150 members of the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. These faculty members,
which include over one-third of the past recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award, opened
their classrooms to evaluation by the project staff and gave generously of their time, their experience,
and their ideas for teaching with excellence. It is to them that our greatest debt of thanks is owed.

Center for Teaching and Learning, Indiana State University
http://web.indstate.edu/ctl/tips/tips.html

Good Teaching Techniques
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/teaching.html
Tools for Teaching, Davis, B.G., Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, 1993
A compendium of classroom-tested strategies and suggestions designed to improve the teaching
practices of all college instructors, including beginning, mid-career, and senior faculty members. The
book describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical tasks, such as writing a course
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syllabus and delivering an effective lecture. It also describes newer, broader concerns such as
responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints.

Deliberations on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/deliberations/
Content includes extracts of published articles in learning and teaching case studies. Articles focus
on teaching and learning articles. In addition, comments contributed by readers and issues brought
about by discussions addressing learning and teaching issues are linked to related resources and
relevant publishers.

Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ae0/
This site has been designed to help faculty and administrators access useful resources about
assessment and evaluation of teaching and learning. This site is organized in three sections:
assessment, institutional effectiveness, and evaluation. We offer information specific to each section;
access to related web sites and tools; a description of resources available from the MCLI A/E
collection; and a current listing of upcoming events at the local and national levels.

National Teaching and Learning Forum
http://www.ntlf.com/
The National Teaching and Learning Forum began publication in the fall of 1991 as a joint venture
with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. Previously, ERIC/HE published a series of short
books reviewing research literature on various higher education topics, which embrace the ideas as
exhibited in The National Teaching and Learning Forum and as an extension of its mission.

Teaching Effective Program, University of Oregon
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/index.html
The Teaching Effectiveness Program provides a wide range and variety of valuable resources for
instructors. Materials include general classroom resources, information focusing on diversity, articles
about featured University of Oregon teachers, library listings, and web links.

Teaching Resource Center, Virginia Tech
http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/Teaching_Concerns/TC_Topic.htm
Many of the articles in TRC's newsletter, Teaching Concerns, provide tips on ways to improve
teaching. The different tips are grouped by category and cross-listed where appropriate.

Teaching Tips Archive
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/tips.html
This site includes more information on the following topics:

• Adult Student Development
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/development.htm

• Assessment and Grading
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/grading.htm

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• Class Participation - Student Motivation
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/participation.htm

• Collaborative/Cooperative Learning Environments
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/collaborative.htm

• Ethics and Teaching - Academic Integrity
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/ethics.htm

• Handling Stress
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/stress.htm

• Learning Strategies - Goal Setting
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/strategies.htm

• Lecture Approach
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/lecture.htm

• Opening Closing Routines
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/routines.htm

• Reflective Teaching
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/reflective.htm

• Teacher-Student Feedback
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/feedback.htm

• Teaching - Learning Styles
http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/pd/tips/styles.htm

Theory into Practice (TIP)
http://tip.psychology.org/
TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The
database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories
can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

Links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using
the Web to deliver course materials

Campus Technology
http://www.campus-technology.com/index.asp
Campus Technology is the only monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology
across all areas of higher education. Campus Technology provides in-depth, aggressive coverage of
specific technologies, their uses and implementations, including enterprise resource planning; e-
Learning and course management systems; presentation technologies; communication, portal, and
security solutions - all the important issues and trends for campus IT decision makers.

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