March SoTL Roundup

We are back with the latest instalment of the monthly SoTL roundup, wherein, each month (as the name implies), I’ll be scrolling through Journal of Political Studies Education, Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, International Studies Perspectives, and European Political Science to bring to you, esteemed ALPS reader, the latest SoTL publications. 

Journal of Political Science Education

Bilhar, M., & Cook, R. J. (2026). What Would Mearsheimer Do? Reviewing Mearsheimer.ai as a Teaching Tool for International Relations. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–5. 

Knutson, K., & Flynn, R. (2026). What Am I Reading? How Teaching Genre Improves Civic Skills. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–17.

Roper, S. D., Mychalczuk, C., & López Vergara, C. (2026). Designing A State Capital Internship Program: Lessons Learned in a New Program. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–14. 

Politics

Kenyon, S. (2026). Meeting the support needs of commuter students through the Political Studies curriculum. Politics, 0(0). 

PS: Political Science and Politics

Craig, A., Dennehy, R., Lee, F., Meyer-Gutbrod, J., Oldham, R., & Simon, S. (2026). The Senate Sandbox: Teaching Legislative Politics through Open-ended, Multi-week Simulations. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1–8. 

Golesorkhi, L.-Z. (2026). Learning Before Doing: Community-Based Learning as Research Methods Learning. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1–5. 

Kotsovilis, S., & Valant, M. (2026). UFOs in the Cold War: A Fun Assignment for Teaching Digital Archival Research. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1–6. 

Ralph-Morrow, E., Schulte, D., Salter, J.-P., & Hartman, A. C. (2026). The Promises and Pitfalls of Using Student-Generated Data to Teach Deductive Qualitative Analysis. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1–7. 

dos Santos, P. A. G., McGuire, M. P., & She, X. (2026). Developing Interview Questions in Undergraduate Classrooms: Introducing a Rubric for Question Development. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1–5.

Weitzel, M. D. (2026). Considering the Truth Value of an Optical Illusion: Foundations of Political Analysis. PS: Political Science & Politics, 1–5. 

There was no new SoTL published in ISP or EPS in February.

I would really recommend reading Susan Kenyon’s piece on commuter students in Politics. It is a great article and is a part of the symposium edited by Cathy Elliott that I mentioned in February’s SoTL Roundup

See you next month, folks.