Teaching Resources

Below you will find a range of sources for teachers and faculty advisors. These resources include scenarios to guide students familiar with the policy analysis tools through a set of research questions related to agenda setting and institutional capacity and lesson plans for courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in American politics, Congress and public policy. Also, check out our sister site LegSim which offers students at the high school and undergraduate levels a change to actively participate in their own virtual-legislature.

• Scenarios guide users through a set of questions which can be addressed using the Policy Agendas Project data. Both preconstructed figures about policy trends and instructions for custom analyses are included.
• A set of lesson plans for instructors of undergraduate and graduate level courses is now available. Find syllabi from instructors who utilize Policy Agendas data in their classes, including the Center for American Politics and Public Policy's Undergraduate Fellows Program.
• LegSim is a virtual legislature where students actively participate in all aspects legislative politics from writing and voting on legislation to debate and committee work.
• The Policy Agendas Project's Short Course provides an overview of the research program's methodology, datasets, and web-based analysis tools.