Category: SoTL Roundup

We are back with the latest installment of the monthly SoTL roundup, wherein, each month (as the name implies), I scroll 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

Bauer, V. A., & Hönnige, C. (2026). Teaching Statistics: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Ensuring Undergraduate Student Success by Teaching and Exam Format Choice. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–20.

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We are back with the latest installment of the monthly SoTL roundup, wherein, each month (as the name implies), I scroll 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 in our discipline.

Journal of Political Science Education

Caivano, D., & Deo, N. (2026). Students Matter: Comparative Reflections on Decolonial Pedagogy in Political Science. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–19.

Hendrickson, P. (2026). Play It Again, Sam: The Use of Iterated Games To Illustrate Student Decisionmaking*. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–27.

Continue reading “June SoTL Roundup”

We are back with the latest installment 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

Hamerly, I. (2026). Enhancing Political Science Education: Evaluating the Impact of Networking Skills Training. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–6. 

Maranto, R., Bradley-Dorsey, M., & Bork, N. (2026). Political Science Majors Are More Tolerant of Controversial Speech. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–16.

O’Dell, R. K. M., & Minghini, S. E. (2026). Classroom UNSC Simulations for Building Student and Instructor Confidence, Leadership, and Negotiation Skills. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–18.

Continue reading “May SoTL Roundup”

We are back with the latest installment 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. 

I am compiling this month’s SoTL Roundup from Oxford, where I am attending the Political Studies Association’s 76th annual conference. There is some fantastic sounding SoTL on the programme for the conference, so, hopefully, there will be some great new publications to feature in the coming year. 

I also had the honour of chairing a roundtable on ‘Building a SoTL Culture’ on Monday, I’ll share something about that soon. But for now, let’s have a look at the latest SoTL in our beloved discipline:

Journal of Political Science Education

Fusco, A. (2026). Adopting Critical Reflections as an Assessment in Politics: Learning, Employability and the Value of a Political Education. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–17.

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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.

Continue reading “March SoTL Roundup”

We are back with the next installment 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, great ALPS reader, the latest SoTL publications.

Journal of Political Science Education

Block, R., Jr. (2026). The Classroom as Civic Sanctuary: Teaching, Learning, and the Emotional Labor of Democracy. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–9.

D’Orazio, D., Sammons, E., Reist, R., Jaipaul, N., & Auer, M. (2026). Teaching Training in Canadian Political Science PhD Programs. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–23. 

Deardorff, M. D. (2026). Finding Joy in Teaching During Dark Times. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–11.

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Happy New Year, all! We are back with our first SoTL Roundup of 2026. If you aren’t already familiar with the SoTL Roundup, 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, cherished ALPS reader, the latest SoTL publications. 

Journal of Political Science Education

Benzoni Baláž, M., & Hlavatá, L. (2025). Innovation: Let’s Co-Create the Rules to Get the Best Outcomes! Student as a Partner Approach in Creation of Assessment Criteria. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–18. 

Brake, B., & Bick, N. (2025). Using Short Simulations to Engage Students in Political Science Classrooms: A Redistricting Simulation in Two Different Settings. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–18. 

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And just like that… we have our last SoTL Roundup of 2025! For the last time this year, 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, beloved ALPS reader, the latest SoTL publications. 

Journal of Political Science Education

Arnzen, C. J., & O’Neill, C. B. (2025). Teaching About Schooling: Integrating Education Politics into Political Science Curricula. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–20.

Atoyan, V., Hakobyan, A., Movsisyan, N., & Artashyan, A. (2025). Economic Policy and Political Science: Examining Armenian Students’ Understanding of the Intersection Between Two Fields. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–13.

Dunlop, E., & Karim, S. (2025). Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Simulation Design: Rebel Recruitment in Azura’s Civil War. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–16. 

Continue reading “December SoTL Roundup”

We are back with the third installment 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, treasured ALPS reader, the latest SoTL publications. For the first time, we also have a SoTL chapter, sent in from a reader, Anahita Arian. If you have an article or chapter that you would like to be included in December’s SoTL Roundup, do reach out. 

Articles from PS are strongly represented this month, as they have published a ‘Profession Spotlight’ series of articles: ‘Rethinking the corporate university: An engagement with Kaufman-Osborne’s The Autocratic Academy’, which not strictly teaching and learning focused, I have included all articles in the series as I suspect they might be of interest to many ALPS readers, especially those concerned with universities in the USA. 

Continue reading “November SoTL Roundup”

We are back with the second installment 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

Albert, C. D., & Heslen, J. J. (2025). Cyber-Enabled Education Operations: Towards a Strategic Cybersecurity Curriculum for the Social Sciences. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–20. 

Brandle, S. M., Camacho, A., Jourdain, A. M., & Williams, J. (2025). We Read The Syllabus: Historically Marginalized Groups in Intro to American Government. Journal of Political Science Education, 1–13. 

Continue reading “October SoTL Roundup”