Archive: CERL Research Papers

• Educating Elementary and Secondary School Students for Civic Engagement: The Impact of Teacher Professional Development

  By Diana Owen Civics instruction for American elementary and middle school students is deprioritized despite its potential to achieve strong positive outcomes. A lack of teacher preparation in civ

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Civics that Empowers All Students (CEAS)

• Conceptualizing and Measuring Civic SEL

  By Diana Owen and Donna Phillips The imperative for quality civic education in American schools has never been more pressing. Recent events have prompted calls from across the political spectrum f

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Integrated Civic Competencies

• Empowering High-Need Students for Informed, Thoughtful, and Productive Citizenship

  By Diana Owen and Donna Phillips The James Madison Legacy Project Extension (JMLPE) is a program of the Center for Civic Education that focuses on adapting the We the People: The Citizen and the C

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, James Madison Legacy Project Expansion

• Active Learning and the Acquisition of Political Knowledge in High School

  By Diana Owen and G. Isaac W. Riddle This study assesses the effectiveness of high school civic education in conveying political knowledge which is an important precursor to political engagement.

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, James Madison Legacy Project

• Teaching Civics in the Digital Age: The Use of Traditional and Innovative Pedagogies

  By Diana Owen This paper assesses the extent to which middle and high school teachers are employing traditional and digital instructional approaches in the civics classroom. It addresses the follo

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Civics in the Digital Age

• Evaluation Report: Strengthening Democracy through History and Civics: Presidential and Congressional Academies 2019 and 2021

  By Diana Owen The Center for Civic Education developed the Presidential and Congressional Academies for American History and Civics to provide an immersive educational experience in civics, Americ

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Presidential and Congressional Academies

• Misinformation in the Civics Classroom

  By Diana Owen, Mary Margaret Herring, Erin Moroney, Weija Ren, and Zoe Chen Zhao Civics, social studies, American government, and history teachers routinely confront misinformation in their classr

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Civics in the Digital Age

• Research Paper: High Need Students’ Acquisition of Civic Dispositions and Skills

  By Diana Owen and Kathryn Hartzell This study examines the effectiveness of the Center for Civic Education’s Congressional Academy for students in conveying civic orientations. The Academy is an i

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, Presidential and Congressional Academies

• CERL Issues Report on the James Madison Legacy Project

  Dr. Diana Owen and the Civic Education Research Lab researchers Kathryn Hartzell and Chelsea Sanchez released a major report on the Center for Civic Education’s James Madison Legacy Project, a progra

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, James Madison Legacy Project

• Research Report: The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms 2019

  By Diana Owen with Fatima Bahja and Sharon Mashovi Around the world, journalists are increasingly turning to digital technology to help address daunting challenges such as the spread of misinforma

  Categories: CERL Research Papers, State of Technology in Global Newsrooms